PORTLAND, Ore. — For the first time, Multnomah County on Wednesday published complete data on the number of people experiencing homelessness based on individual interactions with services instead of biennial point-in-time counts. The data reveals that nearly 15,000 people are considered homeless in some form.
The county’s new dashboard includes data up to February 2025, drawing from a long-awaited by-name list of individuals. At that time, Multnomah County listed 14,864 people experiencing homelessness; 6,796 unsheltered, 4,860 in shelter, and 3,208 in unknown circumstances.
Of those people, a total of 7,485 people were considered chronically homeless, defined as individuals who are very low-income, having one or more disabilities, and experiencing long-term homelessness or at high risk of the same. Among that population, 3,908 were unsheltered, 2,921 were sheltered, and 656 were unknown…