According to numbers from the Wilder Foundation, a St. Paul-based health and human services nonprofit organization, Minnesota’s homeless population has seen its first significant decrease since the early 1990s.

The foundation reports that at last count, which took place on a night in October 2015, there were 9,312 people on the streets—a decrease of about 1,000 people since the last census in 2012. In fact, homeless numbers are now below where they were in 2009.

While this is tentatively good news for the state (and the Twin Cities in particular), a Wilder Foundation spokesperson was sure to caution that the numbers might not be completely accurate, as it’s notoriously difficult to locate homeless people living outside of shelters.

From the Star Tribune: “The latest count reveals a sharp contrast between Hennepin County, where homelessness dropped by 15 percent over the last three years, and Ramsey County, where it jumped 14 percent.”

Another important statistic from the Wilder Foundation’s study is that children who are with their parents make up about 33 percent of Minnesota’s homeless population—also down about 12 percent since 2012. However, the number of unaccompanied minors on the street has increased by nearly 50 percent (although numbers are still relatively low in that subgroup).

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