About Homelessness
South Carolina Council on Homelessness & South Carolina Homeless Coalition:
Statistical Information
Some things to ponder:
(All figures are statistically verifiable)
- 1606 men, women and children were homeless on the night of the Homeless Count in the Upstate.
- 1/3 or 32% of the homeless population were in Families (517 of the 1606).
- There were 273 Chronically Homeless individuals on the night of the Homeless Count, which
equals 17% of the entire homeless population (273 of 1606). [However, the number should be
closer to 25% of total population or 406 Single Adults because the Unsheltered Chronically Homeless
are vastly undercounted.]
- 40% of all Single Adults in Shelters were Chronically Homeless (215 of 540).
- 22% of homeless population said they have a Chronic Substance Abuse problem (348 of 1606).
- 31.5% or almost 1/3 of the homeless were Unsheltered that night (506 of 1606).
This is from a miserable day in January 2007 for 13 counties in the upstate. On very cold and nasty
nights it is harder to find all of the homeless people. It is much easier to find them when it is
warm. People, who are doubled up in someone else’s home, are not counted.
The number for people experiencing homelessness over the course of a year is much higher.
2007 CoC Point-in-Time Homeless Population/Subpopulations Chart
The shaded area in Part 2, Homeless Subpopulations, Unsheltered is incomplete because it does not show
data from our largest county, Greenville County, which did an "observation-only street count."
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Part 1: Homeless Population
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Sheltered
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Unsheltered
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Total
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1. Number of Households with Dependent Children
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25
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157
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1a. Total Number of Persons in these Households
(adults and children)
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125
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517
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2. Number of Households without Dependent Children**
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381
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1089
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2a. Total Number of Persons in these Households
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381
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1089
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Total Persons
(Add Lines 1a and 2a):
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506
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1606
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Part 2: Homeless Subpopulations
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Sheltered
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Unsheltered
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Total
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a. Chronically Homeless
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215
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58
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273
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b. Severely Mentally Ill
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96
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14
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110
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c. Chronic Substance Abuse
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324
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24
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348
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d. Veterans
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49
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14
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63
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e. Persons with HIV/AIDS
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6
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3
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9
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f. Victims of Domestic Violence
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90
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20
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110
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g. Unaccompanied Youth
(Under 18)
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5
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1
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6
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