LA Vacancy Panel

Vacant homes and the Census Bureau's seven vacancy categories for the city, the county, 15 council districts, 114 neighborhoods and 99 neighborhood councils, each with margins and a reliability flag, plus the 30 largest U.S. cities for comparison and an audit of the vacant-homes-per-homeless-person claim.

Updated

Sept. 6, 2026

Desk

Politics

Terms

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What ships

234,017 vacant homes. CSV, no separate documentation.

Files

• claim_audit.csv8 KB
• homeless_vacancy_correlations.csv1 KB
• la_county_tract_vacancy_2024.csv1.1 MB
• la_reference_geographies_2024.csv4 KB
• lahsa_pit_counts.csv2 KB
• neighborhood_homeless_vacancy.csv9 KB
• peer_cities_vacancy_2024.csv5 KB
• tract_homeless_vacancy.csv0.2 MB
• tract_to_unit_weights.csv0.7 MB
• vacancy_annual_sources.csv8 KB
• vacancy_by_unit_2024.csv0.7 MB
• vacancy_by_unit_wide_2024.csv0.2 MB
• vacancy_unit_summary_2024.csv51 KB

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Columns in claim_audit.csv

• comparison_id
• geography
• vacancy_source
• vacancy_vintage
• vacancy_measure
• vacancy_estimate
• vacancy_moe_90
• homeless_source
• homeless_vintage
• homeless_measure
• homeless_estimate
• homeless_moe_95
• ratio_vacant_per_homeless
• difference
• claim_holds
• note

Reporting built on it

• LA has the fourth-lowest vacancy rate among the 30 U.S. cities with the most homes