AZP Monthly Dashboard

AZP Monthly Dashboard

The Adelaide Zero Project Monthly Dashboard tracks our progress towards achieving and sustaining functional zero street homelessness in the inner city.

Since 2018, the Adelaide Zero Project has remained committed to transparency and accountability in reporting monthly data. See below for the latest data.

Functional zero homelessness is achieved when the number of people who are, or were, sleeping rough in the inner city is no greater than the six-month average housing placement rate.

For more information on functional zero, please watch this video.

Update on Adelaide Zero Project data reporting

Recently we launched the new AAEH AtoZ By-Name List (BNL) database in South Australia in August 2025. Our new system ensures strengthened data privacy and security, and provides streamlined tools for frontline workers and for collaboration.

We are currently refining the new BNL to ensure accurate, reliable data. To maintain the highest standards of data quality and reliability, we have temporarily paused updates to the Adelaide Zero Project Monthly Dashboard. Once this process is complete, we will publish an updated dashboard with enhanced capabilities in early 2026. In the interim, historical data will remain visible below.

We thank all Adelaide Zero Project partners and supporters for their ongoing collaboration, which drives accurate insights and better outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

For urgent enquiries, please contact info@saaeh.org.au to discuss.

Active homelessness in Adelaide’s inner city

    1. The Adelaide Zero Project By-Name List classifies a person’s homelessness status as either inactive (not currently engaged with services), not homeless (known to be housed), or actively homeless (currently known to services to be homeless).

    1. Tracking active homelessness is a key metric of the Adelaide Zero Project and allows services to monitor progress toward functional zero homelessness in the inner city.

    1. A person may be recorded as actively homeless if they are newly identified by the homelessness system, Returned from inactive (after service re-engagement), or returned from housing (after previously being housed by the Adelaide Zero Project).

    1. Since August 2020, the Adelaide Zero Project has classified active homelessness into three categories.

        1. People who are known to be sleeping rough (by inner city services).

        1. People who are temporarily sheltered (known by services to be sheltered, after previously known to be sleeping rough).

        1. People who are actively homeless – other (known by services to have previously been temporarily sheltered, but with current circumstances unknown). In the graph above, this category has been incorporated with the known to be sleeping rough category.

    1. As of May 2023, the Adelaide Zero Project has implemented a monthly auditing process to ensure the By Name List is an accurate reflection of the prevalence of street homelessness in Adelaide’s inner city. This included reviewing By Name List records where no engagement activity had been recorded with services in the previous 90-day period.

    1. In July 2022, the Adelaide Zero Project re-certified as achieving Data Quality. An active homelessness median (in green) has been included in the above graph, allowing the Adelaide Zero Project to track any system changes or shifts in the prevalence of homelessness across this period.

    • From 1 July 2021, the Toward Home Alliance became responsible for delivering homelessness services in Adelaide’s inner-city.

    • The Regional Administrator (data custodian) for Adelaide Zero Project’s By-Name List also transitioned from Neami National to The Salvation Army from 1 July 2021, to align with the new Toward Home Alliance service.
    • The Regional Administrator and the Adelaide Zero Project Backbone team continue to assess and undertake data quality activities as required.

The Adelaide Zero Project is currently reviewing its process for requesting data.

If you have a data request, please enquire at dhsadvancetozero@sa.gov.au to discuss.

The Adelaide Zero Project Dashboard tracks our progress towards achieving and sustaining functional zero street homelessness in the inner city.

 

Adelaide Zero Project aims to reach functional zero for people who are either:

  • currently sleeping rough
  • were sleeping rough, but are now temporarily sheltered.

 

Functional zero street homelessness is achieved when the number of people who are, or were, sleeping rough in the inner city is no greater than the housing available in that month, and this can be consistently proven with data. This dashboard is our way of proving that.

 

In Adelaide’s first Connections Week (May 2018), 200 trained volunteers identified 143 people who were sleeping rough in the City of Adelaide. This information was used to create a By-Name List to help inner city homelessness services to know the names and needs of those sleeping rough.

 

Homelessness is a dynamic issue and situations can change daily for people who are experiencing this. Functional zero is a dynamic measure of this complex issue. As the Adelaide Zero Project progresses and our homelessness system improves, we expect these numbers to rise and fall until the system successfully sustains functional zero street homelessness.

 

The development of the Adelaide Zero Project Dashboard is a collective effort of over 40 organisations. Connections Week was led by Hutt St Centre and the By-Name List establishment has been led by Neami National. The dashboard has been made possible thanks to the support of the Broadley Trust.

Adelaide Zero Project and its Partners responded to the COVID-19 pandemic at all levels of the inner-city homelessness system through:

  • establishing an Adelaide Zero Project COVID-19 Response Team incorporating representatives from health, homelessness services, emergency shelter and housing providers, and government authorities
  • using the Adelaide Zero Project By-Name List and collaborative governance structures to quickly implement multi-agency responses
  • increasing the frequency of Adelaide Zero Project’s care coordination meetings to ensure the most vulnerable people are being supported faster. The SA Housing Authority provided the COVID-19 Emergency Accommodation for Rough Sleepers Coordinated Health Response, to support people experiencing homelessness to maintain social distancing measures. This means that many people on the By-Name List who were sleeping rough in the inner city were temporarily sheltered during COVID-19.Homelessness is a dynamic issue and situations can change daily. Despite recent challenges in responding to COVID-19, Adelaide Zero Project partners remain committed to achieving functional zero and ensuring long-term solutions for people currently experiencing homelessness in our city. Adelaide Zero Project’s Collective Impact approach and unique data is already enabling better responses in these unprecedented times.

This graph shows the number of people sleeping rough in the city from June 2007 to May 2018 (Connections Week).

This graph shows the numbers of people sleeping rough in the inner city of Adelaide between June 2007 and August 2018. June 2007 was 108, August 2007 had 93, August 2008 had 59, August 2009 had 40, August 2010 had 73, May 2014 had 95, August 2015 had 60, August 2016 had 125, September 2017 had 74, May 2018 had 143, and August 2018 had 148.

The dashed vertical line (yellow) marks Adelaide’s first Connections Week and baseline data for the Adelaide Zero Project. Figures from June 2007 – September 2017 are Inner City Rough Sleeper Street Counts (Source: Housing SA). Fewer people were approached during the Street Count in September 2017 (136 people) than in May 2017 (225 people). Given the lower numbers of people approached to participate in the September 2017 Street Count, the apparent reduction in people sleeping rough at that time should be interpreted with caution. The vertical lines in May 2011 and February 2013 also reflect methodology changes to the Inner City Street Count.