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Asylum accommodation in Eastleigh

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

10 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Eastleigh as at 30 Jun 2026.

10
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
10
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Eastleigh ranks #301 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying less than 0.1% of England's supported caseload — 0.7 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 143,710). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. South East overview → · Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

10030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 131 Dec 2023 — 531 Mar 2024 — 730 Jun 2024 — 530 Sep 2024 — 531 Dec 2024 — 531 Mar 2025 — 530 Jun 2025 — 030 Sep 2025 — 531 Dec 2025 — 531 Mar 2026 — 330 Jun 2026 — 10
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Eastleigh, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Up 900% 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 10 (30 Jun 2026) and the lowest 0 (30 Jun 2025). The latest snapshot is the highest of the 12. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.

Rank, then and now

Eastleigh ranked #309 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #301 of 346 now. It has moved up 8 places.

Its own caseload changed by +9 over the same period, against -28,383 across England.

Accommodation mix, against England

Accommodation type in Eastleigh as a share of its supported population, against England
Accommodation typePeople hereShare hereShare in England
Dispersal accommodation10100%72.2%
Contingency accommodation—0%20.1%
— of which hotels—0%18.5%
Initial accommodation—0%1.6%
Other or unclassified—0%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)

136,443
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
9.3%
born outside the UK (12,730)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
0.5%
cannot speak English well or at all (620)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Eastleigh has received 9 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 (none in the last four published quarters).

four quarters to 2026 Q2, and cumulative since 2014 · source

Language in schools

The Department for Education publishes pupils by first language at county level, not for district authorities such as Eastleigh, 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

0 households were owed a homelessness relief duty in Eastleigh after being required to leave Home Office asylum accommodation (January to March 2026) — of 26 households owed that duty for any reason.

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

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