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Middlesbrough

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

677
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
651
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
26
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Middlesbrough ranks #40 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.8% of England's supported caseload — 47 per 10,000 residents (against the 143,928 usual residents counted in 2021). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

722030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 70630 Sep 2023 — 71831 Dec 2023 — 63031 Mar 2024 — 64130 Jun 2024 — 62330 Sep 2024 — 66431 Dec 2024 — 66931 Mar 2025 — 72230 Jun 2025 — 69930 Sep 2025 — 67331 Dec 2025 — 69931 Mar 2026 — 677
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Middlesbrough, 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 (-4%).

Census context (2021)

143,928
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
12.3%
born outside the UK (17,686)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
1.9%
cannot speak English well or at all (2,676)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Middlesbrough has received 9 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 7 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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