The 2024 Point-in-Time Homelessness Count found 7,906 people experiencing homelessness in Southern Nevada as of Jan. 25, a 17% increase over last year. It follows an upward trend in the region every year since 2021, when 5,083 homeless were counted.

The report is completed annually with the help of volunteers who spend a morning surveying public areas to count sheltered and unsheltered homeless people. It is part of a nationwide initiative “aimed at understanding the extent of homelessness across the United States” and must be completed during the last ten days of January as required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the county said in a press release.

Last year, 6,566 homeless individuals were identified in Southern Nevada, with 60% of them — or, 3,912 — unsheltered and 2,654 people in emergency shelters or transitional housing.