The 2024 24-hour Point in Time count begins Saturday October 5 at 6 PM until Sunday, October 6 at 6 PM.
The Designated and Indigenous Community Entities are reaching out to find out which members of your organization will be volunteering during the 24-hour enumeration.
Volunteers are required to assist with the enumeration and survey individuals that are experiencing homelessness.
The Community Entities are dependent on staff from organizations that already have relationships and are familiar with people who are living without a house in Thunder Bay.
Reaching Home funded organizations are expected to take part in the 2024 Point in Time Count.
Volunteer Registration is Now Closed
Key Findings
The 2021 Thunder Bay Point in Time Count took place on October 2, 2021 at 6:00 pm and continued for 24 hours, ending October 3, 2021 at 6:00 pm.
The Point-in-Time (PiT) Counts are a community-level measure of sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. It also provides a national picture of homelessness.
The PiT Counts take place every couple of years on a single night between March 1 and April 30. The data from PiT Counts can help participating communities to identify service needs and inform planning to prevent and reduce homelessness.
221 individuals experiencing homelessness were surveyed during a 24-hour period from October 2nd to October 3rd, 2021.
63% are male and 34% are female (1% are non-binary, 2-Spirit or questioning, 7% identify as LGBTQIA2S and 2% did not respond)
When asked where they were staying that night:
- 43% in emergency shelters
- 17% couch surfing
- 12% at a treatment centre
- 10% outside/encampment
- 8% in transitional housing
- 5% were unsure
- 4% in a hotel/motel
- 1% in a vehicle
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