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Barking and Dagenham

England · London — asylum support snapshot, as at 31 Mar 2026.

301
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
271
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
30
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Barking and Dagenham ranks #106 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.4% of England's supported caseload — 13.8 per 10,000 residents (against the 218,870 usual residents counted in 2021). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

594030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 59430 Sep 2023 — 56031 Dec 2023 — 47831 Mar 2024 — 55030 Jun 2024 — 47530 Sep 2024 — 44631 Dec 2024 — 38931 Mar 2025 — 37430 Jun 2025 — 32430 Sep 2025 — 29831 Dec 2025 — 30131 Mar 2026 — 301
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Barking and Dagenham, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Down 49% since 30 Jun 2023.

Census context (2021)

218,870
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
41.3%
born outside the UK (90,387)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
5.1%
cannot speak English well or at all (10,605)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Barking and Dagenham has received 9 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 (none in the last four published quarters).

four quarters to 2026 Q1, and cumulative since 2014 · source

Ranked nearby

Support counts are a point-in-time snapshot by registered address; contingency sites open and close between quarters. Census figures are from March 2021 and predate arrivals since. Numbers say where the asylum system places people — they say nothing about any individual.

Data as of

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