The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC) includes information about clients receiving homelessness services support from 1 July 2011 onwards. These data provide important insights into the homelessness support service system, and can be linked to other national health and welfare data to examine service use, health outcomes and demographics for specific cohorts. Additional research will be added regularly to this report.
- Cat. no: HOU 323
Key findings
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Among the 11,800 people who received both SHS and AODTS throughout 2012–23 who died, their median age at death was 46
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Throughout 2012–13 to 2022–23, the median age at death in people with any history of SHS support was 55 years
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3 in 4 unaccompanied children experiencing homelessness when support began, were homeless when support ended in 2023–24
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Annually, between 2012–13 to 2022–23, the death rate of SHS clients was 1.4–1.7 times that of non-SHS clients