The 2011 One Night Count
Beginning at 2:00 am Friday morning, 886 volunteers counted the people sleeping
outdoors in King County. They counted 2,442 people living outside in King County.
They counted children, adults, and seniors, some huddled in doorways, some
sleeping in cars, others camped in green spaces or sheltered in makeshift campsites.
SKCCH organized more than 137 teams through ten area headquarters in urban,
suburban, and rural King County.
Counters returned to historical and new count areas in Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland,
Woodinville, Shoreline, Kenmore Bothell, Seattle, White Center, Federal Way,
Kent, Renton and Auburn. The 2011 One Night Count also collected information
from select hospitals about emergency room usage, and from Metro night owl
buses.
Volunteers counted 317 fewer people living in publicly-accessible parts of
King County in 2011 than in those same areas in 2010. This represents an 11%
decrease. The numbers of people counted outside are separate from roughly 6000
people who were in area emergency shelters and transitional housing programs
on the same night. Winter shelters in Seattle and Redmond meant that 149 people
inside last night who would otherwise have had no place to go. SKCCH is tracking
how many families were turned away from shelters because they were full during
the Count. The complete 2011 One Night Count Report will be released as soon
as the other data are compiled.
Download the 2011 results.
Archived One Night Count Reports
View one of our archived reports.