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Ealing

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

1,163
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
632
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
388
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
187
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
143
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Ealing ranks #17 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 1.4% of England's supported caseload — 31.7 per 10,000 residents (against the 367,115 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

1.4k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 1,06530 Sep 2023 — 1,16231 Dec 2023 — 99931 Mar 2024 — 1,15230 Jun 2024 — 1,11130 Sep 2024 — 1,15131 Dec 2024 — 1,28631 Mar 2025 — 1,44230 Jun 2025 — 1,17930 Sep 2025 — 1,18731 Dec 2025 — 1,24931 Mar 2026 — 1,163
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Ealing, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Broadly flat since 30 Jun 2023 (+9%).

Census context (2021)

367,115
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
50.8%
born outside the UK (186,554)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
6.5%
cannot speak English well or at all (22,872)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Ealing has received 74 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 2 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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