This New Jersey County Has The Most Homeless People: Study

There’s good news and bad news about homelessness in New Jersey.

The good news, according to the 2017 NJ Counts Point-In-Time homeless study, is that statewide, the number of homeless New Jersey residents dropped 4.6 percent from last year.

The bad news is that the same county once again bucked the trend, ranking as the area with the most homeless residents in the state for the third year in a row, according to a report from Monarch Housing Associates, which organized the annual one-day count for 2017 in January.

This year, a whopping 24 percent of the state’s homeless population was counted in Essex County, according to a report from Monarch Housing Associates, which organized the annual, one-day effort in January.

With a total of 2,048 homeless people counted, Essex County’s total dwarfs the tally from the second-highest county, Hudson, which had 822 homeless residents, according to the study.

See the complete county-by-county listing and find out what can be done about homelessness in New Jersey here.

• Essex - 2,048 homeless people - 24%
• Hudson - 822 homeless people - 9.6%
• Burlington - 604 homeless people - 7.1%
• Middlesex - 546 homeless people - 6.4%
• Camden - 540 homeless people - 6.3%
• Mercer – 478 homeless people - 5.6%
• Atlantic – 422 homeless people - 4.9%
• Bergen – 302 homeless people - 3.5%
• Cumberland - 151 homeless people - 1.8%
• Hunterdon - 130 homeless people - 1.5%
• Gloucester - 128 homeless people - 1.5%
• Cape May - 119 homeless people - 1.4%
• Monmouth 299 3.5%
• Morris 378 4.4%
• Ocean 224 2.6%
• Passaic 449 5.3%
• Salem 17 0.2%
• Somerset 244 2.9%
• Sussex 99 1.2%
• Union 475 5.6%
• Warren 57 0.7%

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