Now available: March 2025 data

We are excited to share the latest update to our data dashboard. Click to see the latest data.

Launched earlier this year, the Homeless Services Department dashboard shares monthly counts of the total number of people experiencing homelessness in Multnomah County. It also provides monthly information on the work the County is doing to end homelessness, including showing the number of people receiving rent assistance that helps them leave homelessness for permanent housing.

Now, our dashboard has been updated to include data through March 2025.

What’s new?

One change with this latest update is that several metrics now incorporate data from programs serving people fleeing domestic violence. This gives us a fuller picture of who we are serving. To maintain the privacy and safety of people fleeing domestic violence, this data is excluded from metrics that could potentially identify clients, and most filters aren’t available for this data.

Please note: previously published data can shift over time

Please note that with this (and every) dashboard update, some of the previously published data will have shifted. This is to be expected as we continuously review and improve our data.

Below are some reasons why previously published data might change.

Data entry lag

Data entry lag is the most common reason for changes to previously published data — particularly for our data on people served by housing programs. Providers do not enter their data in real-time, so sometimes it can take weeks or even months for all data to be submitted to us.

Data quality improvement projects

Often, the Homeless Services Department will conduct quality improvement projects on specific areas of our data. For example, the data team collaborates quarterly with Home Forward to ensure all Regional Long-Term Rent Assistance move-ins are accurately logged. Because this happens only every quarter, it can lead to changes in previously published monthly data.

Duplicate merges

Before the launch of the data dashboard, the Homeless Services Department undertook a significant project to remove duplicates from our data — ensuring we don’t double-count people. While the bulk of that work is done, we continue to remove any duplicates we encounter, which can shift previously published numbers.

Three-month hold for new shelters

When a new shelter opens, the Homeless Services Department waits three months before starting to publish shelter utilization data for that site. This gives new shelters time to ramp up their program and work out any issues with data entry. As an example, Oak Street Village, which opened in March, won’t appear on the dashboard until we publish May 2025 data.