Women Are 40 Percent of the Homeless Population in the United States

A new report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finds that in 2024 there were more than 771,000 homeless people in the United States. Of these, about 320,000 people lived in emergency shelters or transitional housing. But more than 241,000 people were “unsheltered.”

Nearly 460,000 of the 771,000 homeless population was male. Thus, men and boys made up 60 percent of all those classified as homeless. Just over 300,000 women and girls were considered homeless in 2024. Some 1.1 percent of all homeless people did not identify with traditional male or female identities.

There were 60,000 homeless people who said they were victims of domestic violence. There were 33,000 veterans who were homeless.

Nearly 2,700 people who were homeless were unaccompanied minors under the age of 18. More than a third of these were unsheltered. There were more than 9,000 homeless people under the age of 24 who had accompanied children.