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Asylum accommodation in Causeway Coast and Glens

Northern Ireland — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.

206 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Causeway Coast and Glens as at 30 Jun 2026, including 127 in contingency hotels.

206
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
79
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
127
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
127
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Causeway Coast and Glens ranks #130 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 9.1% of Northern Ireland's supported caseload — 14.5 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2024 population estimate of 141,954). Northern Ireland overview → · Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

214030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 14831 Dec 2023 — 15831 Mar 2024 — 15730 Jun 2024 — 13130 Sep 2024 — 14431 Dec 2024 — 16731 Mar 2025 — 17430 Jun 2025 — 20130 Sep 2025 — 21431 Dec 2025 — 19931 Mar 2026 — 20030 Jun 2026 — 206
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Causeway Coast and Glens, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Up 39% 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 214 (30 Sep 2025) and the lowest 131 (30 Jun 2024). The latest is 206. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.

Rank, then and now

Causeway Coast and Glens ranked #173 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #130 of 346 now. It has moved up 43 places.

Its own caseload changed by +58 over the same period, against -838 across Northern Ireland.

Accommodation mix, against Northern Ireland

Accommodation type in Causeway Coast and Glens as a share of its supported population, against Northern Ireland
Accommodation typePeople hereShare hereShare in Northern Ireland
Dispersal accommodation7938.3%85.6%
Contingency accommodation12761.7%11.7%
— of which hotels12761.7%11.7%
Initial accommodation—0%1.9%
Other or unclassified—0%0.9%

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.

What is not published for Northern Ireland

Three sections on this site's English local-authority pages have no counterpart here, and that is a gap in what is collected rather than an omission by this site:

  • Pupils whose first language is not English — the Department for Education publishes it for England only.
  • Households owed a homelessness duty after leaving asylum accommodation — MHCLG's statutory homelessness collection covers England only.
  • Census 2021 country-of-birth and English-proficiency context — Scotland and Northern Ireland ran separate censuses on different questions and timetables.

Nothing has been substituted for them. Where a comparable Northern Ireland figure exists in a different collection on a different basis, putting it in the same table as the English one would invent a comparison the publishers did not make.

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Causeway Coast and Glens has received 39 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 (none in the last four published quarters).

four quarters to 2026 Q2, 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 context is unavailable: the 2021 census covered England and Wales only — Northern Ireland ran its own census. Numbers say where the asylum system places people — they say nothing about any individual.

Data as of

Cite this page

Asylum accommodation in Causeway Coast and Glens. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/causeway-coast-and-glens
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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