# Where people sleep rough

> Westminster alone accounts for a fifth of everyone seen.

- Category: People
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `rough-sleeping-borough`
- Source: [London Datastore](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/rough-sleeping-in-london-chain-reports-2n88x)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/where-people-sleep-rough](https://londongraph.com/g/where-people-sleep-rough)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/where-people-sleep-rough](https://londongraph.com/data/where-people-sleep-rough)

## Methodology

People seen rough sleeping by borough in the latest published quarter, from CHAIN outreach records. Westminster's dominance is real and partly structural: it is where services, transport hubs and night-time footfall concentrate, and where outreach coverage is densest — a borough with less outreach also finds fewer people.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/where-people-sleep-rough): Westminster alone accounts for a fifth of everyone seen.
- [Symbols](https://londongraph.com/g/where-people-sleep-rough?view=symbols): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/where-people-sleep-rough?view=distribution): Show every published value around the median and quartiles.

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