Unhoused women are dying younger than ever before in Toronto.

Recently released data for the first six months of 2024 from Toronto Public Health has found that the median age of death for women experiencing homelessness in the city is just 36.

In 2022, unhoused women who died in Toronto were on average 42 years old. That number was 43 in 2023.

The median age at death for men experiencing homelessness in the first half of 2024 was 50.

Torontonians residents, in general, live much longer with men typically dying at the age of 78 and women at the age of 85, according to 2022 data.

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
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    2 days ago

    but here men form the large majority of visibly homeless people that I encounter.

    I’m wondering where you see mostly male unhoused people,

    I looked up an actual survey of homeless people in Toronto

    Your numbers are outdated [though]. Here are updated counts from Toronto’s 2021

    Is that the one that shows the percentages have skewed even harder toward predominantly male homelessness?

    I guess in answer to your earlier question, ‘where you see mostly male unhoused people’, the answer could be ‘everywhere, based on your numbers’ perhaps? It went from 3:1 to now 4:1.