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Leeds

England · Yorkshire and The Humber — asylum support snapshot, as at 31 Mar 2026.

1,416
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,086
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
276
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
276
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
54
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Leeds ranks #11 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 1.7% of England's supported caseload — 17.4 per 10,000 residents (against the 811,953 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

1.8k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 1,50030 Sep 2023 — 1,65031 Dec 2023 — 1,45131 Mar 2024 — 1,59830 Jun 2024 — 1,65430 Sep 2024 — 1,70131 Dec 2024 — 1,68631 Mar 2025 — 1,65930 Jun 2025 — 1,65930 Sep 2025 — 1,71531 Dec 2025 — 1,77231 Mar 2026 — 1,416
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Leeds, 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 (-6%).

Census context (2021)

811,953
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
15.8%
born outside the UK (128,272)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
1.9%
cannot speak English well or at all (14,894)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Leeds has received 406 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 (none 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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