Tool
Support by Area
- Data Home Office, immigration system statistics
- Covers People receiving asylum support, by local authority, UK
- Updated the latest quarter
Find how many people receive asylum support in a local authority.
People on asylum support, by local authority
Each circle is one local authority, its area showing the number of people on asylum support there. Click a circle to see that area. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5; dots are areas with fewer than 10; no circle means none listed.
The area
People receiving asylum support from the Home Office in this local authority, as at the date shown, by type of support. Counts of 10 or more are rounded to the nearest 5; smaller counts are shown as "fewer than 10". Excludes unaccompanied children supported by local authorities. Northern Ireland includes only people who claimed asylum there. Provisional figures.
Since 2023
People in Home Office accommodation at the end of each quarter, and those of them in hotels. Excludes subsistence-only support, which had no area recorded for part of the period. Local authority boundaries as at April 2023. Counts under 10 are left as gaps in the chart and shown as "fewer than 10" in the table.
In accommodation and in hotels, each quarter
The region
All people on asylum support, as at the date shown. Region and UK totals are exact; local authority counts are rounded, so they need not add up to them.
Cheap housing, more support
The pattern follows the cost of housing. Home Office contractors buy the accommodation, and they are paid set rates, so they make more profit where housing is cheaper. That is why it has concentrated in cheaper areas, the Home Affairs Committee found in October 2025. Councils do not choose where it goes.
People on asylum support for every 10,000 residents. Local authorities are split into five equal groups, first by household income per head (gross disposable household income), then by average house price. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5; areas with fewer than 10 people have no rate. The lists leave out areas under 25,000 residents.