Find out more about our street outreach team and get the latest street count information.
Brighton & Hove City Council funds a specialist outreach team to go out on the streets and help rough sleepers all year round. The street outreach team works with all rough sleepers to offer support and guide them to accommodation and support services.
This service is provided by Change Grow Live. The service links with agencies across the city to provide joined-up personal support.
Share the details of people rough sleeping with StreetLink so the information can be passed on to outreach workers.
Every 2 months, a street count is carried out in the city to capture a 'single night snapshot' of the number of people who are sleeping rough in the local area.
The street count is always carried out at night to make sure those included are sleeping out. The counts are used to increase understanding of the situation in the city and to help direct support where it's most needed.
The most recent local street count took place in January 2026.
The November count is part of the national count that happens across the country each winter. Details of this count are sent to the government.
The national count information is checked by an independent verifier and the details are released in the new year.
| Date of count | Number of people sleeping rough |
|---|---|
| January 2026 | 27 |
| November 2025 | 57 |
| September 2025 | 42 |
| July 2025 | 68 |
| May 2025 | 36 |
| March 2025 | 26 |
| January 2025 | 28 |
| November 2024 | 76 |
| September 2024 | 52 |
| July 2024 | 35 |
| May 2024 | 36 |
| March 2024 | 35 |
| January 2024 | 21 |
| November 2023 | 52 |
| September 2023 | 56 |
| July 2023 | 53 |
| May 2023 | 38 |
| March 2023 | 22 |
| January 2023 | 22 |
| November 2022 | 41 |
| September 2022 | 55 |
| July 2022 | 47 |
| May 2022 | 39 |
| March 2022 | 17 |
| January 2022 | 9 |
| November 2021 | 37 |
| September 2021 | 39 |
| July 2021 | 28 |
| May 2021 | 16 |
| March 2021 | 16 |
| January 2021 | 9 |
| November 2020 | 27 |
| September 2020 | 32 |
| June 2020 | 56 |
| January 2020 | 83 |
| November 2019 | 88 |
| September 2019 | 78 |
| July 2019 | 43 |
| May 2019 | 53 |
| March 2019 | 66 |
| January 2019 | 30 |
The regular counts are separate from the official annual count required by the government each autumn.
The gap between September 2018 and January 2019 in the above table is filled by the information from the annual count held which was carried out during a night in November 2018. The annual count was verified as recording 64 people who were rough sleeping.
Information about tents in the city is gathered by commissioned services and partner agencies across Brighton & Hove every day.
A weekly review meeting is held to look at:
The meeting is attended by officers from teams across the council and representatives from partner agencies, including Sussex Police and Equinox.