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Bradford

England · Yorkshire and The Humber — asylum support snapshot, as at 31 Mar 2026.

1,266
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
996
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
233
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
185
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
37
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Bradford ranks #14 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 1.5% of England's supported caseload — 23.2 per 10,000 residents (against the 546,411 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

1.9k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 1,80130 Sep 2023 — 1,89631 Dec 2023 — 1,58431 Mar 2024 — 1,51830 Jun 2024 — 1,56930 Sep 2024 — 1,61431 Dec 2024 — 1,52731 Mar 2025 — 1,44330 Jun 2025 — 1,43030 Sep 2025 — 1,45531 Dec 2025 — 1,36831 Mar 2026 — 1,266
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Bradford, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Down 30% since 30 Jun 2023.

Census context (2021)

546,411
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
18.7%
born outside the UK (101,934)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
4.2%
cannot speak English well or at all (21,794)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Bradford has received 833 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 6 of them 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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