DENVER — For the first time ever, there’s now data on exactly how many people have experienced homelessness in Colorado.
A new study by the Colorado Homeless Management Information System (COHMIS) compared data from all four federally recognized Continuum of Care agencies in Colorado to determine how many people sought out their services and removed any duplicates:
- Balance of State CoC covers 54 counties in rural, non-metro regions.
- Metro Denver CoC covers the 7-county metro region, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, & Jefferson counties.
- Northern Colorado CoC covers Larimer & Weld counties.
- Pikes Peak CoC covers El Paso County.
The Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (DMHI) is the lead organization for the Metro Denver CoC.
“This is the first time the four of us have worked together, pulled our information, our data together, made sure that data was unduplicated and of high quality,” said Jason Johnson, the Executive Director of DMHI. “The hope is that this will create a baseline so that in 2025, ’26, ’27 we can use this data to see any trends, specifically, see if things are getting better or worse, but also see what kind of programs across the state are working and should be replicated across the state.”
- View a summary of the State of Homeless report from the COHMIS in the embed below.
More than 52,000 people sought out support services for homelessness in 2024, according to the report. Of those, 30% were chronically homeless and around 6% were veterans…