Asylum accommodation in Newport
Wales — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.
306 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Newport as at 30 Jun 2026.
Newport ranks #100 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 9.5% of Wales's supported caseload — 18.2 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 168,584). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Wales overview → · Compare all authorities →
The last 12 quarters
Down 28% 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 424 (30 Sep 2023) and the lowest 306 (30 Jun 2026). The latest snapshot is the lowest 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
Newport ranked #90 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #100 of 346 now. It has moved down 10 places.
Its own caseload changed by -118 over the same period, against -52 across Wales.
Accommodation mix, against Wales
| Accommodation type | People here | Share here | Share in Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dispersal accommodation | 301 | 98.4% | 94.3% |
| Contingency accommodation | — | 0% | 3% |
| — of which hotels | — | 0% | 3% |
| Other or unclassified | 5 | 1.6% | 2.7% |
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.
Two 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.
Nothing has been substituted for them. Where a comparable Wales 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.
Census context (2021)
The legal route, locally
Alongside asylum dispersal, Newport has received 128 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 (none in the last four published quarters).
Ranked nearby
- #97 Nuneaton and Bedworth 318
- #98 Southampton 315
- #99 Knowsley 309
- #101 Colchester 302
- #102 Crawley 301
- #103 Gloucester 290
Data as of
Cite this page
Asylum accommodation in Newport. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02. https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/newport Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.
Sources for this page
- Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics) — Home Office · as at 30 Jun 2026 · retrieved 2026-09-02
- Population estimates, local authority based (ONS, via Nomis table NM_31_1) — ONS · mid-2025 · retrieved 2026-09-02
- Census 2021 tables TS004 (country of birth) and TS029 (proficiency in English), England and Wales — ONS · Census day, 21 March 2021 · retrieved 2026-09-02