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Nottingham

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

1,538
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,263
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
238
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
238
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
37
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Nottingham ranks #7 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 1.8% of England's supported caseload — 47.5 per 10,000 residents (against the 323,632 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

1.6k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 1,57730 Sep 2023 — 1,56231 Dec 2023 — 1,49031 Mar 2024 — 1,39630 Jun 2024 — 1,36830 Sep 2024 — 1,47331 Dec 2024 — 1,53531 Mar 2025 — 1,53330 Jun 2025 — 1,52230 Sep 2025 — 1,58531 Dec 2025 — 1,60531 Mar 2026 — 1,538
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Nottingham, 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 (-2%).

Census context (2021)

323,632
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
24.6%
born outside the UK (79,499)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
3%
cannot speak English well or at all (9,471)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Nottingham has received 223 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 28 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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