--- title: Specialist homelessness services clients by month, Australia resource: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/ publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-08-19 rows: 46656 fields: 5 source: https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/294121b6-b7d5-4f6b-9480-04d60bcc716d/aihw-hou-321-SHS-data-tables_June-2026.xlsx source_sha256: 160454cc6cd341e5fb01da989c00fd54a75cb53e9dbdde1e77c0a093f837d845 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Specialist homelessness services clients by month, Australia Clients of specialist homelessness services in each month since July 2017, by state and territory, sex and age group, from the AIHW monthly data tables. Updated with each release. Published by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has not endorsed this site. Also called: SHS monthly data, Specialist homelessness services monthly clients, Homelessness statistics monthly Australia, AIHW homelessness data. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.csv (2.1 MB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.xlsx (1.1 MB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.json (4.4 MB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.parquet (96 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.sqlite (4.1 MB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.duckdb (600 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.ndjson (4.3 MB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.arrow (473 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.csv.gz (240 KB) Pinned version 2026-08-19: `https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-homelessness-services-monthly/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-homelessness-services-monthly/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-homelessness-services-monthly/rows?state=eq.National&sex=eq.Total&month=eq.2026-06-01&age_group=neq.All%20Ages&limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-homelessness-services-monthly/aggregate?group=age_group&metric=sum.clients&state=eq.National&sex=eq.Total&month=eq.2026-06-01&age_group=neq.All%20Ages Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Smaller files - by `state`: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/by/state/index.json lists 9 files ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `month` | date | (row header 1) | The first day of the month. | | `sex` | string | (row header 2) | | | `age_group` | string | (row header 3) | An age band, or the row that totals every age, which is All Ages for the total, All Females for females and All Males for males. | | `state` | string | (column header 1) | The state or territory, or National for the Institute's national count. | | `clients` | integer | (cell) | People who received support in the month. | Key: `month, sex, age_group, state`. ## Versions - 2026-08-19: 46656 rows, 5 fields, sha256 160454cc6cd3. https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Public housing dwellings, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-housing-dwellings/) (Qld) - [Social housing register, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/) (Qld) - [Median house sale prices by suburb, metropolitan Adelaide](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-metro-median-house-prices/) (SA) - [Land transfer duty by postcode, Victoria, 2021-22](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-land-transfer-duty-by-postcode/) (Vic) - [Land tax by municipality, Victoria, 2024](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-land-tax-by-municipality/) (Vic) ## Attribution and citation Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, Specialist Homelessness Services monthly data, sourced 30 September 2026, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/specialist-homelessness-services-monthly-data/data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, Specialist Homelessness Services monthly data, sourced 30 September 2026, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/specialist-homelessness-services-monthly-data/data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/ Harvard: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2026) Specialist homelessness services clients by month, Australia, version 2026-08-19 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 30 September 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/ Markdown: Data: [Specialist homelessness services clients by month, Australia](https://www.aihw.gov.au/copyright), Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 30 September 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Specialist homelessness services clients by month as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Specialist homelessness services clients by month in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 46,656 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Specialist homelessness services clients by month cover? The current version covers 2017 to 2025. Each release from AIHW becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Specialist homelessness services clients by month updated? AIHW releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Specialist homelessness services clients by month commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Specialist homelessness services clients by month? No. The publisher is Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and its page is https://www.aihw.gov.au/copyright. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.xlsx with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### How do I get only the rows for one state? Every version has one JSON file per value of state, 9 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/by/state/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/au-homelessness-services-monthly/v/2026-08-19/by/state/act.json holds the 5,184 rows where state is ACT. ### What is counted? The number of people who received support from a specialist homelessness agency in each month, by state or territory, sex and age group, as agencies report to the Specialist Homelessness Services Collection. A person supported in two states in one month is counted in each. The National column is the Institute's own national count and is kept as a state value named National. ### How current is it? The Institute releases the monthly tables every few months, each release replacing the workbook with a new file that runs to the latest month. Each version here is one release. Recent months are revised in later releases as agencies finalise their reporting. ### Why does the attribution say "based on" AIHW material? The Institute publishes its data tables under CC BY 4.0 and asks that material adapted from them, which republishing in other formats is, carry the words "Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material". Every file here carries them. The Institute has not endorsed this site. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.xlsx`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/au-homelessness-services-monthly.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/au-homelessness-services-monthly.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.