How does the Census Bureau account for homeless people?
The Census Bureau never planned to produce a count of the “homeless” population from Census 2000. Special procedures were designed to include in the total count people living in homeless shelters on a designated night (March 27, 2000), people receiving free meals at soup kitchens at a designated time on March 28, 2000, and people found living at designated street locations on March 29, 2000. The Census Bureau never intended these counts to be released as a total homeless count since in fact, they are not. The Census Bureau has released a special report in October 2001 that contains sub-national counts (by State, by places of 100,000 total population and above, and by census tract) and characteristics of people enumerated in shelters (emergency and transitional) on the night of March 27, 2000. The Census Bureau does not plan to provide sub-national counts of people enumerated at soup kitchens and at outdoor locations during Census 2000. To view this report: • Click Reference Shelf on th
