The number of homeless people in the Netherlands was 32,000 on 1 January this year, 4,000 less than a year earlier. The share of 18 to 27-year-olds in particular has fallen, reports the Central Bureau of Statistics. This has brought the years-long rise in the number of homeless people to a halt, according to Statistics Netherlands.
Since 2009, the statistical office has been keeping track of the number of homeless people in the Netherlands. Since then, the number has almost doubled. 80 percent of the homeless are male, and about a third live in one of the four major cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht). One in five homeless people has a non-Western migration background.
Statistics Netherlands cannot say why homelessness is more common among certain groups. Furthermore, the institute does not count homeless people. Like homeless people, they do not have their own accommodation, but they are registered in the population register, with an address with a friend or family member. This concerns, for example, ‘bank hoppers’.
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