The 2009 Hillsborough County Homeless Coalition Homeless Census Survey reports that 9,566 men, women and children are homeless in Hillsborough County on any given night.

• 23% of homeless are children
• 57% are Caucasian
• 36% are African-American
• 14% are Hispanic/Latino
• 17% are veterans
• 25% are employed
• 40% have some kind of income
• 38% have a phyical disability
• 3% have the HIV/AIDs virus
• 88% became homeless in Florida
• 41% are homeless for the first time
• 81% do not have drug and alcohol addictions
• 63% do not suffer from mental illness