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Texas Homeless Data Sharing Network Data Dashboard
The State-Level Homelessness Data Dashboard presents client-level statistics collected from 237 of Texas’s 254 counties. These data are provided by the Texas Homeless Data Sharing Network (THDSN), which currently aggregates client information from ten (10) of the twelve (12) Continuum of Care (CoC) regions across the state.
It is important to note that this dashboard reflects the minimum documented number of individuals and households experiencing homelessness in Texas. Data are submitted by each participating CoC through its Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), a key—but not exhaustive—tool used by communities to coordinate services and support for people experiencing homelessness. Despite these limitations, the Data Dashboard represents the most comprehensive and direct statewide source available for understanding documented homelessness trends in Texas.
To better support Data Dashboard users, Texas Homeless Network has developed a Public Dashboard User Glossary to help familiarize readers with housing-specific terminology used throughout this report and across the Texas Homeless Network website. Users are encouraged to reference this glossary while reviewing and interpreting the data presented in this dashboard.
For individuals or organizations seeking to use this data for research, media publication, or other purposes, please contact Anja Taylor, Director of Statewide Data Integration, prior to extracting or publishing data to discuss scope, context, and appropriate use.
Total Number of People Experiencing Homelessness
This figure represents the total number of people in Texas who experienced homelessness during the specified time period and accessed services through state and federally funded programs. It is important to note that this number likely underestimates the true scope of homelessness in Texas, as not all households experiencing housing insecurity are eligible for assistance or feel safe or comfortable accessing services.
This report, published on August 3, 2026, includes data submitted by participating Continuums of Care (CoCs) covering the period from January 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026.
State of Texas Overall Map
This statewide map displays the number of individuals experiencing homelessness whose data are uploaded to the Texas Homeless Data Sharing Network (THDSN) on a quarterly basis. For each selected county, the percentage category represents the proportion of individuals recorded in the system during the selected timeframe. To protect client privacy and promote anonymity, data are displayed in grouped percentage categories rather than as county-level counts.
Total Number of People Entering & Exiting Homelessness
The line graphs below illustrate the number of individuals and/or households documented in a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) who entered homelessness in Texas during the selected time period, as well as those who exited the homeless response system. In some cases, individuals may have experienced homelessness multiple times within a single year and are therefore represented more than once in the data.
This snapshot of entries into and exits from the homeless response system is particularly important, as it helps identify trends, patterns, and variations in homelessness across Texas. These data also underscore the ongoing need for expanded supportive services and community-based resources to ensure all Texans have access to stable, affordable housing.
Homelessness By Population
- Choose Time Period: Use the slider to view quarterly statistics for all people experiencing homelessness, including Veterans. Data include sheltered and unsheltered status, as well as the percentage breakdown of household types by quarter.
- Racial Composition: These line graphs compare the racial composition of people experiencing homelessness with that of the overall Texas population.
Texas Balance of State Continuum of Care Data
The Texas Balance of State Continuum of Care (TX BoS CoC) is committed to collecting and using data to drive program priorities and policy direction. We rely on the communities throughout our geographic area to help collect high-quality data on homelessness by using the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), completing Housing Inventory Counts and conducting Point-in-Time counts. The data collected through these methods help to produce reports, which can be used for planning locally, on a CoC-level, and nationally.
With HUD’s introduction of System Performance Measures in 2016, the TX BoS CoC is now not only evaluating performance on a project-by-project level, but also on a CoC-wide level. This means that projects must work together and rely on one another even more closely than before to ensure overall performance is high.
Unlike smaller CoCs that can help more directly with data collection, the TX BoS CoC depends on communities to volunteer to participate in the Housing Inventory and Point-in-Time counts in order to obtain data. We can only offer data each year for communities that choose to participate.
What Data We Collect
Point-in-Time Count (PIT)
Housing Inventory Count (HIC)
Longitudinal Systems Analysis (LSA)
A critical aspect of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, is a focus on viewing the local homeless response as a coordinated system of homeless assistance options as opposed to homeless assistance programs and funding sources that operate independently in a community.
The Longitudinal Systems Analysis (LSA) report, produced from a CoC’s Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS) provides HUD and Continuums of Care (CoCs) with critical information about how people experiencing homelessness use their system of care.
To view more information about the LSA, please visit HUD Exchange.
System Performance Measures (SPMs)
HUD has established a set of selection criteria to use in awarding CoC funding that requires CoCs to report to HUD their system-level performance. The intent of these selection criteria is to encourage CoCs, in coordination with ESG Program recipients and all other homeless assistance stakeholders in the community, to regularly measure their progress in meeting the needs of people experiencing homelessness in their community and to report this progress to HUD.
CoCs also play an integral role in Consolidated Plan (Con Plan) jurisdictions’ planning process. They are required to provide the jurisdiction with the information necessary to complete the Con Plan(s) for homeless assistance provided to persons within the CoC’s geographic area that fall within the Con Plan jurisdiction’s geographic area, including data on performance measures. HUD and the TX BoS CoC will use the system-level performance information as a competitive element in its annual CoC Program Competition and gauge the state of the homeless response system nationally.
In 2016 CoCs were required to submit System Performance Measures to HUD for the first time. The 2015 data that was submitted will serve as a “baseline” against which all future System Performance Measure Reports will be measured.
Don’t see your community represented in our reports?
Contact our Data Coordinator below. We are always happy to help our communities get started with data collection.