The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority on Friday released finalized totals for this year’s count of residents experiencing homelessness.
The 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count results showed the sheltered count in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care was revised from 23,503 people to 23,362 people, or a difference of 141 individuals. That drop pushed downward the number of total people experiencing homelessness in the LA CoC by 141 to 67,777 people.
For the city of Los Angeles, the sheltered count was revised from 16,727 to 16,723. Now the city’s total unhoused population is an estimated 43,695.
The Continuum of Care and the city have updated overall results — from 72,308 to 72,195 people countywide overall homelessness and from 24,895 to 24,745 sheltered individuals.
LAHSA also revised the LA County unsheltered estimate from 47,413 to 47,450 people, or an increase of 37. The revision adds unsheltered data from Winnetka in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles to the countywide unsheltered results.
“When calculating the data from the four Los Angeles County Continuums of Care, LAHSA mistakenly used an outdated file that did not include the Winnetka data,” according to the agency. “During the HUD review process, LAHSA discovered the omission and added the data to the revised results. This process applied only to the countywide numbers because the data were included in the City of Los Angeles’ and the Los Angeles Continuum of Care unsheltered estimates announced in July.”
Officials said all data revisions are within the margins of error of results LAHSA announced in July and are considered statistically insignificant.
“LAHSA has an unwavering commitment to accountability and transparency, especially when it comes to providing as accurate a picture of homelessness in our community,” Bevin Kuhn, LAHSA’s deputy chief analytics officer, said in a statement. “This standard HUD data review presents an opportunity to ensure our Homeless Count data is as accurate as possible. While the resulting adjustments fall well within the margin of error, the process itself is invaluable to ensuring the integrity of the Homeless Count.”
Officials said the revisions were made after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reviewed the data and “found duplication and utilization errors.”
Two interim housing sites in the Long Beach Continuum of Care were mistakenly counted in the LA Continuum’s count, according to LAHSA.
“This occurred because the Long Beach Continuum of Care uses LAHSA’s Homelessness Management Information System database to account for people experiencing homelessness within its borders, and the unsheltered count consists of data pulled from HMIS,” according to an agency statement. “The other eight sites were removed at HUD’s request due to irregular utilization rates.”
LAHSA officials also included in the final data release revised numbers for several population groups. The University of Southern California provided data assistance to LAHSA for the homeless count and “inadvertently excluded some interim housing programs’ start and end dates,” officials said. “As a result, the sheltered counts for several demographics change within their original margin of error.” The largest revisions occurred for these demographic groups:
- 59-person decrease in the Black, African American or African sheltered population;
- 55-person increase in the white sheltered population;
- 162-person increase in the chronic homelessness sheltered population;
- 137-person increase in the serious mental illness sheltered population; and
- 103-person increase in the substance abuse sheltered population.
LAHSA’s revised data summaries are available on the agency’s website.
Officials also launched the Local Jurisdiction Count online that aims to enhance transparency into the 2025 and future homeless counts, according to LAHSA.
“The Local Jurisdiction Count provides the most up-to-date 2025 Homeless Count Census Subtract data by using contemporaneous administrative records to incorporate scattered-site shelter data, reassigning shelter counts that had previously been aggregated in a single location as per HUD guidance, and making other verified adjustments,” agency officials said.
LA County will use the updated data to determine funding allocations for the Measure A Local Solutions Fund, and HUD uses it to determine annual federal assistance to the region.
