How to display a count of Locations or of Events

Does anybody display a total count of Locations or of Events on at least one web page?
I have put several functions in my child functions.php file but I depend on them being ready to go without me modifying them since I’m not a coder.

I placed this in the functions.php file and placed a shortcode on my home page. It displayed “Locations listed” but no numeral of the total of Locations. It also doesn’t work if I substitute “posts” or any custom post type of mine instead of ‘locations’ so I guess my error is something fundamental; not because I’m trying to access EM data.

function elementor_count_locations_shortcode( $atts ) {
$count_locations = wp_count_posts('locations');
$total_locations = $count_locations->publish;
echo "Locations Listed " . $total_locations;
}
add_shortcode( 'my_elementor_total_locations', 'elementor_count_locations_shortcode');