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Census 2000 Report on Shelters Released Today
The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released a new Census 2000
report, Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population: 2000 [pdf], that
provides tabulations on the population enumerated in emergency and
transitional shelters.
In this report, the population in emergency and transitional shelters
were counted on March 27, 2000, and include the following facilities:
emergency shelters (with sleeping facilities); shelters for children who
are runaways, neglected or without conventional housing; transitional
shelters for people without conventional housing; and hotels and motels
used to provide shelter for people without conventional housing. Shelters
for abused women (or shelters against domestic violence) are not included.
Data are shown in the report for the emergency and transitional shelter
population, but not separately by type of facility.
Emergency and transitional shelters were one type of group quarters
included in Census 2000. Others were group homes, correctional facilities,
halfway houses, college dormitories and worker dormitories.
The Census Bureau stressed that the shelter figures do not constitute
and should not be construed as a tabulation of the total population
without conventional housing or "people experiencing homelessness." Not
all people without conventional housing on March 27, 2000, resided at
shelters. Some may have "doubled up" at housing units owned or rented by
friends or relatives or found other nonshelter locations that night. And,
since the shelters were visited only one night, only the people residing
at shelters open that night would have been enumerated.
A list of tables follows:
- Table 1. Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters for the
United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: 1990 and 2000
- Table 2. Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters by Sex
and Age for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: 2000
- Table 3. Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters by Sex,
Age and Hispanic or Latino Origin, for the United States: 2000
- Table 4. Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters by Age
for Metropolitan Areas With 100 or More People in Emergency and
Transitional Shelters in the United States and in Puerto Rico: 2000
- Table 5. Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters by Age
for Places of 100,000 or More Population With 100 or More People in
Emergency and Transitional Shelters in the United States and in
Puerto Rico: 2000
An additional table will be released on the Census Bureau's Internet
site at http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/phc-t12.html. It has
population data for selected group quarters for the United States, counties
with 100 or more people in emergency and transitional shelters and census
tracts with 100 or more people in emergency and transitional shelters. The
same table includes counts of selected group quarters in Puerto Rico.
available free from Adobe.
