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Asylum accommodation in Castle Point

England · East of England — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.

25 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Castle Point as at 30 Jun 2026.

25
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
22
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
3
other or unclassified support
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Castle Point ranks #264 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying less than 0.1% of England's supported caseload — 2.8 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 90,613). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. East of England overview → · Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

26030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 531 Dec 2023 — 431 Mar 2024 — 330 Jun 2024 — 330 Sep 2024 — 431 Dec 2024 — 431 Mar 2025 — 930 Jun 2025 — 1030 Sep 2025 — 1531 Dec 2025 — 2531 Mar 2026 — 2630 Jun 2026 — 25
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Castle Point, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Up 400% since 30 Sep 2023.

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 26 (31 Mar 2026) and the lowest 3 (31 Mar 2024). The latest is 25. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.

Rank, then and now

Castle Point ranked #276 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #264 of 346 now. It has moved up 12 places.

Its own caseload changed by +20 over the same period, against -28,383 across England.

Accommodation mix, against England

Accommodation type in Castle Point as a share of its supported population, against England
Accommodation typePeople hereShare hereShare in England
Dispersal accommodation2288%72.2%
Contingency accommodation—0%20.1%
— of which hotels—0%18.5%
Initial accommodation—0%1.6%
Other or unclassified312%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)

89,586
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
4.8%
born outside the UK (4,283)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
0.3%
cannot speak English well or at all (288)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

Language in schools

The Department for Education publishes pupils by first language at county level, not for district authorities such as Castle Point, so no figure is shown here rather than borrowing the county's.

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.

academic year 2025/26 · source

When asylum accommodation ends

The number of households in Castle Point owed a homelessness relief duty after being required to leave Home Office asylum accommodation is suppressed by the publisher for this quarter (—), to avoid identifying households.

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.

January to March 2026 · 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

Cite this page

Asylum accommodation in Castle Point. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/castle-point
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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