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King County rank among large CoCs on HUD System Performance Measures, FY2019 and FY2024

Where does King County rank among large CoCs on each System Performance Measure?

Coverage: Federal fiscal years 2015-2024 (HUD); FY2025 KCRHA-reported figures

Node: dataset:homeless-system-performance:1:analysis:king-spm-ranks

Contained in Homeless system performance: Seattle/King County vs. 66 large U.S. Continuums of Care, FY2015-FY2024.

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What this dataset measures

Tests whether King County's homeless system moves people into housing as well as other large regions, using the measures HUD requires every CoC to report. Same 67 CoCs as homelessness-rate-vs-rent.

Geography
United States, King County, WA, Seattle, WA
Unit of observation
CoC by federal fiscal year
Update cadence
Annually, after HUD updates its SPM data file
Curator
FactHub

Supporting files

Source snapshots, manifests, quality reports, documentation, and other materials used to produce or review this release.

  • build_spm.js Transformation manifest · text/javascript · 6.2 KB (6,301 bytes)

    Node.js script that builds spm-panel from the HUD workbook sheets (exported to CSV).

  • rank.js Transformation manifest · text/javascript · 2.7 KB (2,754 bytes)

    Node.js script that ranks WA-500 among the large CoCs, with and without data-quality exclusions.

  • csvlib.js Transformation manifest · text/javascript · 518 bytes

    CSV helper used by the SPM scripts.

  • build_spm_dataset.js Transformation manifest · text/javascript · 23.2 KB (23,731 bytes)

    Node.js script that builds spm-king and the saved analyses in this dataset.

  • findings-spm.md Documentation · text/markdown · 16.5 KB (16,875 bytes)

    Method notes, results, KCRHA cross-check and data-quality caveats for the System Performance Measures.

Saved analyses

King County rank among large CoCs on HUD System Performance Measures, FY2019 and FY2024

Question: Where does King County rank among large CoCs on each System Performance Measure?

Result: FY2019 Average days homeless in emergency shelter and safe havens (M1): 104, rank 51 of 67 (median 78); FY2019 Median days homeless in emergency shelter and safe havens (M1): 47, rank 40 of 67 (median 44); FY2019 Returns to homelessness within 24 months of exit to permanent housing, % (M2): 18.8, rank 28 of 67 (median 20.1); FY2019 People homeless for the first time per 10,000 residents (M5): 36.8, rank 45 of 66 (median 19.8); FY2019 Street outreach exits to temporary or permanent destinations, % (M7a): 62.7, rank 15 of 67 (median 37); FY2019 Exits from shelter, transitional housing and rapid rehousing to permanent housing, % (M7b.1): 36.6, rank 42 of 67 (median 42); FY2019 Permanent supportive housing retention or exit to permanent housing, % (M7b.2): 95.4, rank 42 of 67 (median 96.3); FY2024 Average days homeless in emergency shelter and safe havens (M1): 206.8, rank 61 of 67 (median 119.6); FY2024 Median days homeless in emergency shelter and safe havens (M1): 119, rank 57 of 67 (median 56); FY2024 Returns to homelessness within 24 months of exit to permanent housing, % (M2): 15.3, rank 16 of 67 (median 18.8); FY2024 People homeless for the first time per 10,000 residents (M5): 32.3, rank 42 of 67 (median 28.7); FY2024 Street outreach exits to temporary or permanent destinations, % (M7a): 76.1, rank 4 of 67 (median 31.1); FY2024 Exits from shelter, transitional housing and rapid rehousing to permanent housing, % (M7b.1): 49.2, rank 7 of 67 (median 35.6); FY2024 Permanent supportive housing retention or exit to permanent housing, % (M7b.2): 94.4, rank 57 of 67 (median 96.7)

Operation: Rank WA-500 among CoCs reporting each measure; rank 1 = most favorable in HUD's direction

Scope: 66-67 large CoCs per measure

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  • SPMs are self-reported from each CoC's HMIS and not audited by HUD; CoCs may revise prior years.
  • HMIS bed coverage differs by CoC and year (King County 77-87%); domestic-violence providers are excluded everywhere.
  • Descriptive comparisons; differences may reflect data practice, coverage or system design as well as performance.
  • Most large CoCs have 30% or more unknown exit destinations for shelter or outreach, which weakens M2 and M7 comparisons.

Derived from

This dataset uses data from these FactHub dataset versions.

Sources

  1. HUD Exchange, CoC System Performance Measures Data Since FY 2015 CoC-level System Performance Measures, one sheet per fiscal year FY2015-FY2024, as submitted by each CoC.

    Retrieved October 10, 2026. U.S. government work (public domain). Public domain; not rehosted here.

    Archived copy captured October 10, 2026

  2. KCRHA, "Understanding System Performance Measures: A HUD Federal Report Overview," CoC Board, April 1, 2026 KCRHA's own FY2024 and FY2025 figures and its explanation that record cleanup drove part of the FY2025 changes.

    Retrieved October 10, 2026. Public agency document. Linked, not rehosted.

    Archived copy captured October 10, 2026

Limitations and reproducibility

Reproducible from public sources: Export each sheet of the HUD SPM workbook to CSV, run spm-build-script with the CoC list and panel from dataset homelessness-rate-vs-rent, then rank-script and spm-dataset-script (Node.js).

  • SPMs are self-reported from each CoC's HMIS and not audited by HUD; CoCs may revise prior years.
  • HMIS bed coverage differs by CoC and year (King County 77-87%); domestic-violence providers are excluded everywhere.
  • Descriptive comparisons; differences may reflect data practice, coverage or system design as well as performance.
  • HUD's FY2024 file has zeroed transitional-housing return counts for most CoCs; only the combined "All" columns are used.
  • HUD revised exit-destination categories in its FY2024 HMIS Data Standards.

Publications using this dataset

Version details

The exact citing versions, and the version of this dataset each cites.

  • Article seattle-homelessness-spending-results — version 5 (published) cites version 1
  • Article seattle-homelessness-spending-results — version 4 (published) cites version 1
  • Article seattle-homelessness-spending-results — version 3 (published) cites version 1
  • Article seattle-homelessness-spending-results — version 2 (published) cites version 1
  • Chart king-county-shelter-days-chart — version 1 (published) cites version 1