Press release No. 299 of 14 July 2022
- Unattached people accounted for 41% of the homeless people accommodated
- Significantly more homeless men than women were accommodated
- Baden-Württemberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Berlin reported the largest numbers of homeless people accommodated
WIESBADEN – As at 31 January 2022, approximately 178,000 people were reported as homeless in Germany and accommodated, for example, in temporary overnight accommodation facilities, emergency shelters or collective living quarters. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that just under 74,000 of the homeless people accommodated were unattached (41%), as is shown by the statistics compiled for the first time from reports of municipalities and institutions. Just under 59,000 (33%) homeless people were accommodated as families or couples with children living in a joint household. Roughly 23,000 people (13%) (including the children) lived in lone-parent households during the accommodation. Approximately 4,500 people (3%) were accommodated as couples without children. The remaining about 18,000 people (10%) were recorded as living in "other multi-person households" or the type of household was not known.
