MigrationWatchdog

Canterbury

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

222
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
220
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
2
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Canterbury ranks #133 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.3% of England's supported caseload — 14.1 per 10,000 residents (against the 157,429 usual residents counted in 2021). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

227030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 6330 Sep 2023 — 7331 Dec 2023 — 7231 Mar 2024 — 8530 Jun 2024 — 9430 Sep 2024 — 10831 Dec 2024 — 10331 Mar 2025 — 15630 Jun 2025 — 18430 Sep 2025 — 19931 Dec 2025 — 22731 Mar 2026 — 222
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Canterbury, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Up 252% since 30 Jun 2023.

Census context (2021)

157,429
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
12.9%
born outside the UK (20,300)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
0.7%
cannot speak English well or at all (1,048)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Canterbury has received 82 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 9 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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