AUSTIN (KXAN) — After more than 600 volunteers spent a misty night in January hand-counting the number of people they found sleeping in cars, tents and parks, Austin-Travis County’s 2025 Point-In-Time (PIT) count shows at least 3,238 people were experiencing homelessness on that night.
The snapshot includes people in shelters and transitional housing — 1,661 during this count — and another 1,577 outside. Due to federal rules about how the count is conducted, 911 people in the Travis County jail who were otherwise unhoused are not included in the PIT total.
The PIT count is a bi-annual count done in Austin by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO). It’s federally required and provides a snapshot of how many people may be experiencing homelessness in Austin on any given night…