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Bristol, City of

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

879
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
354
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
472
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
472
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
53
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Bristol, City of ranks #27 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 1% of England's supported caseload — 18.6 per 10,000 residents (against the 472,465 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

1.4k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 72530 Sep 2023 — 1,20631 Dec 2023 — 1,19031 Mar 2024 — 1,00330 Jun 2024 — 1,07230 Sep 2024 — 1,07531 Dec 2024 — 1,34131 Mar 2025 — 1,26530 Jun 2025 — 1,18830 Sep 2025 — 1,37931 Dec 2025 — 1,10831 Mar 2026 — 879
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Bristol, City of, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Up 21% since 30 Jun 2023.

Census context (2021)

472,465
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
18.8%
born outside the UK (88,968)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
1.6%
cannot speak English well or at all (7,147)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Bristol, City of has received 494 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 10 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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