Colorado Balance of State
Point-in-Time Count Results
Survey Date: January 23, 2013
• 228 individuals were
surveyed in a shelter
• 132 individuals were surveyed
not in a shelter
• 360 total individuals
surveyed
WHAT IS YOUR AGE?
11%
13%
Under 18: 45
18-24: 40
76%
Over 24: 267
GENDER OF INDIVIDUAL SURVEYED
30%
Male: 242
Female: 106
70%
ARE YOU A VETERAN?
14%
Yes: 50
No: 310
86%
HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN MESA
COUNTY?
22%
0-1 year: 80
1-3 years: 67
57%
17%
3 or mor years: 205
Have you been living in
shelters and/or on the streets
continuously for a year or
more?
39%
58%
Yes: 138
How many times have you had
to stay in shelters or on the
streets in the past 3 years?
28%
No: 206
69%
Less than 4:
244
At least 4:
99
DO YOU HAVE ANY DISABILITIES?
4
HIV/AIDS
14
Traumatic Brain Injury
21
Developmental Disabilities
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
63
Substance Abuse Disorder
64
68
Serious Mental Illness
82
Chronic Physical Illness
183
None Apply
0
50
100
150
200
In the past year, number
of times you used the ER?
In the past year, number of
times you used an
ambulance?
0 times: 177
6%
19%
10%
1 time: 52
49%
0 times: 259
6%
1 time: 37
10%
2 times: 35
14%
3 or more
times: 70
2 times: 21
72%
3 or more
times: 22
TOTAL NUMBER OF TIMES HOMELESS
(INCLUDING THIS TIME)
2%
4%
1%
0: 2
7%
10%
1: 61
29%
2: 45
3: 42
6%
4: 12
5 to 7: 21
20%
8 to 10: 9
21%
11 or More: 14
Don't Know: 4
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HOMELESS
THIS TIME?
6
More than 10 years
4
6 to 10 years
15
3 to 5 years
47
12 months to 2 years
30
7 to 11 months
27
4 to 6 months
44
1 to 3 months
37
Less than 1 month
0
10
20
30
40
50
WHAT RACE DO YOU IDENTIFY AS?
2%
9%
7%
American Indian or
Alaska Native: 16
White: 186
Black or African
American: 6
Refused: 19
82%
Are you Hispanic or Latino?
Yes: 25
No: 195
IN THE PAST MONTH, HAVE YOU OR
ANYONE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD
RECEIVED ANY MONEY FROM WORKING?
38%
Yes: 86
No: 142
62%
REASONS OR CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
TO HOMELESS SITUATION
130
140
120
93 99
100
80
61 58 62
45 39 42 42 44 51
60
40
20
0
127
0 7 3
72
WHERE DID YOU SLEEP THE NIGHT OF
JANUARY 22, 2013
1%
3% 3%
8%
Street or sidewalk: 10
1%
2%
23%
8%
Doorway or other
private property: 5
Vehicle: 28
Abandoned building: 5
Park: 7
Woods/ open space: 28
Emergency shelter: 181
51%
Homeless transitional
housing: 81
Other: 10