Asylum accommodation in Barnsley
England · Yorkshire and The Humber — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.
276 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Barnsley as at 30 Jun 2026.
Barnsley ranks #106 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.3% of England's supported caseload — 10.9 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 252,784). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Yorkshire and The Humber overview → · Compare all authorities →
The last 12 quarters
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 277 (31 Dec 2025) and the lowest 0 (30 Sep 2023). The latest is 276. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.
Rank, then and now
Barnsley has a recorded caseload in only some of these quarters, so a rank comparison across the whole series would be misleading.
Its own caseload changed by +276 over the same period, against -28,383 across England.
Accommodation mix, against England
| Accommodation type | People here | Share here | Share in England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dispersal accommodation | 264 | 95.7% | 72.2% |
| Contingency accommodation | — | 0% | 20.1% |
| — of which hotels | — | 0% | 18.5% |
| Initial accommodation | — | 0% | 1.6% |
| Other or unclassified | 12 | 4.3% | 6.1% |
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.
Census context (2021)
Language in schools
2,999 pupils in Barnsley's state-funded schools have a first language known or believed to be other than English — 8.6% of the 34,865 pupils recorded across the three published language categories (2025/26).
A pupil's first language is not immigration status, and this is not a count of migrant children — most pupils with another first language are British citizens. State-funded schools only.
When asylum accommodation ends
2 households were owed a homelessness relief duty in Barnsley after being required to leave Home Office asylum accommodation (January to March 2026) — of 149 households owed that duty for any reason. A further 6 were owed a prevention duty for the same reason.
Households, not people. Prevention (threatened with homelessness) and relief (already homeless) are different duties and are never added together here — a household can move from one to the other.
Ranked nearby
Data as of
Cite this page
Asylum accommodation in Barnsley. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02. https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/barnsley 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
- Census 2021 tables TS004 (country of birth) and TS029 (proficiency in English), England and Wales — ONS · Census day, 21 March 2021 · retrieved 2026-09-02