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Homeless Rate by Age

The rate of homeless Lincoln adults in decreased after the COVID-19 pandemic, but has returned to pre-pandemic levels

When homelessness is viewed as a proportion of the population, the homeless rate among youth was lower than the rate among adults in 2023. Looking at past years, a larger percentage of youth were homeless compared to adults up through 2014; in more recent years, however, a larger proportion of adults were homeless compared to youth.

• Homelessness peaked in Lincoln in 2012, when there was a homeless rate of 4.4 children per 1000, and 3.4 adults per 1000.
• In the past 10 years, the year with the lowest rate of homelessness for both groups was 2021 (0.9 per 1000 children and 1.1 per 1000 adults).
• Although rates of homelessness were low in 2021, they have since returned to 2019 rates. In 2023, compared to 2019:
  • The homeless rate among children was 1.3 per 1000, compared to 1.6 per 1000 in 2019.
  • The homeless rate was 1.5 per 1000 among adults, the same as in 2019.

Notes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center on Children, Families, and the Law, Lincoln Homeless Point in Time Report.

Children/Youth are 19 and younger through 2014, and under 18 beginning in 2015.

Data not available for 2020.