| Homeless Poverty Statistics |
Data |
| Number of homeless people in the US |
1,750,000 |
| Average monthly income for a homeless individual |
$348 |
| Percent of homeless that do not get enough to eat daily |
28 % |
| Percent of homeless that did paid work during the past month |
44 % |
| Percent of homeless that have problems with alcohol, drug abuse, or mental illness |
66 % |
| Percent of homeless persons that have been sexually assaulted |
7 % |
| Percent of homeless that have been homeless for more than two (2) years |
30 % |
| Percent of homeless women that are unaccompanied / have no partner |
40 % |
| Percent of homeless women claim to have been abused within the past year. |
25 % |
| Percent of homeless women who claim domestic abuse as the reason for their homelessness |
22 % |
| Percent of homeless population that are Veterans / Vets |
40 % |
| Percent of homeless persons who are employed |
25 % |
| Number of Americans who now live in hunger or on the edge of hunger |
31,000,000 |
| Percent of people in a soup kitchen line who are children |
20 % |
| Number of families who are lodging nightly in city shelters in New York City |
6,252 |
| Number of children in the U.S. who live below poverty level. |
12,000,000 |
| Annual number of food stamp recipients who are children |
9,300,000 |
| Percent of cities surveyed that identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness |
46 % |
| Percent of the adult homeless population that suffer from a severe and persistent mental illness |
22 % |
| Percent of homeless persons who have a mental illness that requires institutionalization |
6 % |
| Demographic make-up of the homeless population |
Percent |
| Single Men |
44 % |
| Single Women |
13 % |
| Families with Children |
36 % |
| Unaccompanied Minors |
7 % |
| Racial breakdown of homeless population |
Percent |
| African-American |
50 % |
| White |
35 % |
| Hispanic |
12 % |
| Native American |
2 % |
| Asian |
1 % |
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