California Homeless Population 2024. Overall homelessness grew 67% compared to 2022, and the number of people sleeping outside increased 128%. This number represents 27.89% of the total homeless population in.

 — california’s homeless population may have increased as much as 7.5% between 2022 and 2023. On that night, more than 180,000 people were experiencing homelessness in california, a homelessness rate of 46.5 per 10,000 people, per hud.