The percentage of Tacoma’s homeless population that reports coming from outside the city grew from 2024 to this year, according to data from Pierce County’s annual survey of people living unhoused.
Pierce County’s annual Point-In-Time Count survey attempts to quantify the number of folks living in shelters, in vehicles or on the streets during a single night in January every year.
In 2025, 22% of the 2,037 unhoused people surveyed in Tacoma reported living in a Tacoma ZIP code prior to becoming unhoused, according to data shared by the city…