 Results of the 2026 Point-in-Time Count
Fairfax County, in coordination with the surrounding Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, conducted its 2026 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count of individuals and families experiencing homelessness on February 4, 2026. This highly coordinated effort provides critical data on the numbers of Fairfax County residents living in shelters, in time-limited transitional housing programs as well as those unsheltered and living on the street in the Fairfax-Falls Church community. There were 1,365 people experiencing homelessness in Fairfax County on the night of the 2026 Point-in-Time Count. This is an increase of three percent (43 people) from the 2025 Point-in-Time Count, in which there were 1,322 people identified as experiencing homelessness.
For information on key findings of the 2026 PIT Count as well as a link to the Point-in-Time Count & Housing Inventory Count Dashboard, go to the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness web page at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/homeless/point-time-count-2026.
Data from Fairfax County is part of a regional analysis and annual report on homelessness by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Homeless Services Planning and Coordinating Committee, presented to the COG Board of Directors on May 13. Concerned by the lack of regional data available, COG undertook the first effort to produce a Point-in-Time count of homeless adults and children in metropolitan Washington in 2001. Learn more at mwcog.org/homelessnessreport.
You are also invited to the virtual June 10, 2026, 9:30 am, Continuum of Care Membership Meeting in which the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness will present the results of the 2026 PIT Count. The meeting can be accessed by clicking on the link below or copying and pasting it into your browser:
https://bit.ly/CoCMembershipMeeting06102026
Or dial in by phone: 571-429-5982 Phone Conference Id: 853 873 711#
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