The number of people reported to be sleeping rough in London was 11,993 in 2023/24. During the provided time period, the number of people sleeping rough was lowest in 2010/11 when there were estimated to be 3,975 rough sleepers.
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Rough Sleeping in England. Rough sleeping counts and estimates are single night snapshots of the number of people sleeping rough in local authority areas.
In 2024, there were reported to be 3,858 men sleeping rough on a single night in England, and 680 women, with a further 129 people whose gender was not known. Between 2017 and 2024, the majority of rough sleepers reported in England have been men.
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Rough sleeping, total count Source agency: Communities and Local Government Designation: Experimental Official Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Rough Sleeping England
The majority of the people found sleeping rough in London in 2022/23 were from the United Kingdom, at 4,265 people. People from Romania were the next most common nationality at 1,031 rough sleepers.
Rough sleeping counts and estimates in England, by local housing authority Source agency: Communities and Local Government Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Rough Sleeping Statistics England 리소스 XLS Rough_sleeping_table_1.xls XLS 다운로드 Autumn 2012 table 1 XLS Blank_form_for_2012.xls XLS 다운로드 Autumn 2012 blank local authority form PDF Rough_Sleeping_Statistics_England_-_Autumn_2012.pdf PDF 다운로드 Autumn 2012 report
In 2023/24, there were 2,102 rough sleepers reported in Westminster, making it the London borough with the highest number of rough sleepers in that year. Other boroughs which also had a high number of homeless people included, Camden, Ealing, and Lambeth.
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Rough sleeping statistics England. Values are individual counts unless stated otherwise. Please note that the spatial layer the source data have been joined to is Local Authority Districts (December 2016) Ultra Generalised Clipped Boundaries in England. This layer has been used to improve online load time and may be used for country level visualisations. Please DO NOT use this layer for area or length calculations.Source: MHCLG Update Frequency: Annually Last Update: 16 Feb 2018 Next Update: Dec 2018
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This data provides information across England on the number of rough sleepers in each local authority area, identified either through a count or an estimate, from 2010 to 2015.
The data comes from CLG table 1 and is presented here simply to ease analysis by simplifying the fomatting. The data itself is unchanged.
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This data provides information across England on the number of rough sleepers in each local authority area and Region, identified either through a count or an estimate, from 2010 to 2017. The data comes from CLG table 1 and is presented here simply to ease analysis by simplifying the fomatting. The data itself is unchanged.
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The number of people reported to be sleeping rough in London was 11,993 in 2023/24. During the provided time period, the number of people sleeping rough was lowest in 2010/11 when there were estimated to be 3,975 rough sleepers.