Asylum accommodation in Aberdeenshire
Scotland — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.
216 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Aberdeenshire as at 30 Jun 2026, including 92 in contingency hotels.
Aberdeenshire ranks #124 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 3.2% of Scotland's supported caseload — 8.2 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 264,640). Scotland overview → · Compare all authorities →
The last 12 quarters
Up 26% since 30 Sep 2023.
Where this sits in the record
Everything here comes from the same published accommodation table as the figures above, across the 12 quarters it covers — so it is available for every authority in all four nations, and no figure is combined with one from a different collection.
Highest and lowest recorded
The highest quarter recorded here is 377 (31 Dec 2025) and the lowest 171 (30 Sep 2023). The latest is 216. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.
Rank, then and now
Aberdeenshire ranked #164 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #124 of 346 now. It has moved up 40 places.
Its own caseload changed by +45 over the same period, against +763 across Scotland — 5.9% of that national movement.
Accommodation mix, against Scotland
| Accommodation type | People here | Share here | Share in Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dispersal accommodation | 123 | 56.9% | 81.5% |
| Contingency accommodation | 92 | 42.6% | 9.8% |
| — of which hotels | 92 | 42.6% | 9.8% |
| Initial accommodation | — | 0% | 3.9% |
| Other or unclassified | 1 | 0.5% | 4.7% |
Hotels are a subset of contingency accommodation, so the shares do not sum to 100%. Both columns come from the same snapshot of the same table.
Three sections on this site's English local-authority pages have no counterpart here, and that is a gap in what is collected rather than an omission by this site:
- Pupils whose first language is not English — the Department for Education publishes it for England only.
- Households owed a homelessness duty after leaving asylum accommodation — MHCLG's statutory homelessness collection covers England only.
- Census 2021 country-of-birth and English-proficiency context — Scotland and Northern Ireland ran separate censuses on different questions and timetables.
Nothing has been substituted for them. Where a comparable Scotland figure exists in a different collection on a different basis, putting it in the same table as the English one would invent a comparison the publishers did not make.
The legal route, locally
Alongside asylum dispersal, Aberdeenshire has received 320 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 28 of them in the last four published quarters.
Ranked nearby
- #121 Rossendale 238
- #122 Blackpool 236
- #123 Hammersmith and Fulham 225
- #125 Darlington 214
- #126 Tendring 213
- #127 Norwich 211
Data as of
Cite this page
Asylum accommodation in Aberdeenshire. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02. https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/aberdeenshire Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.
Sources for this page
- Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics) — Home Office · as at 30 Jun 2026 · retrieved 2026-09-02
- Population estimates, local authority based (ONS, via Nomis table NM_31_1) — ONS · mid-2025 · retrieved 2026-09-02