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Number of homeless shows a point-in-time count of homeless people that is conducted every year in every county in Washington. The count is conducted during the last week in January by local volunteers and service providers with assistance from counties, cities, and the Department of Commerce. The number of homeless persons includes those sheltered and unsheltered.

In Washington in 2014. . .

18,839 were counted as homeless;

26.7 per 10,000 population were homeless.

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Note: Benton/Franklin and Chelan/Douglas counties were reported together. These were separated out by weighting their population for reporting and mapping purposes on this site.

Source: 2006-2014, Washington State Department of Commerce, (http://www.commerce.wa.gov/Programs/housing/Homeless/Pages/default.aspx);