Fairfax County, in coordination with the surrounding Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, conducted its 2023 Point-In-Time Count of individuals and families experiencing homelessness on January 25, 2023. This highly coordinated effort provides critical data on the numbers of Fairfax County residents living in shelters, in time-limited transitional housing programs as well as those unsheltered and living on the street in the Fairfax-Falls Church community. There were 1,310 people experiencing homelessness in Fairfax County on the night of the 2023 Point-in-Time Count. This is a increase of 10 percent (119 people) from the 2022 Point-in-Time Count, in which there were 1,191 people identified as experiencing homelessness. 

The Point-in-Time Count dashboard (see below) includes:

• The total number of people identified as experiencing homelessness between the 2005 and 2023 Point-in-Time Counts;

• The Point-in-Time Count demographics between 2017 and 2023; and

• The shelter and housing capacity compiled as part of the Housing Inventory Counts conducted between 2005 and 2023.

Dashboard Tips:

• For full screen view, CLICK HERE.
• Data can be viewed by different characteristics such as year, population, or project type.
• Note, there are three screens of data available; click the ">" below to advance to each screen.