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Asylum accommodation in Pendle

England · North West — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.

441 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Pendle as at 30 Jun 2026.

441
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
439
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
2
other or unclassified support
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Pendle ranks #69 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.5% of England's supported caseload — 44 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 100,203). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. North West overview → · Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

525030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 44731 Dec 2023 — 50931 Mar 2024 — 52530 Jun 2024 — 50630 Sep 2024 — 46831 Dec 2024 — 42131 Mar 2025 — 45430 Jun 2025 — 45130 Sep 2025 — 44731 Dec 2025 — 44831 Mar 2026 — 43430 Jun 2026 — 441
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Pendle, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Broadly flat since 30 Sep 2023 (-1%).

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 525 (31 Mar 2024) and the lowest 421 (31 Dec 2024). The latest is 441. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.

Rank, then and now

Pendle ranked #82 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #69 of 346 now. It has moved up 13 places.

Its own caseload changed by -6 over the same period, against -28,383 across England — 0% of that national movement.

Accommodation mix, against England

Accommodation type in Pendle as a share of its supported population, against England
Accommodation typePeople hereShare hereShare in England
Dispersal accommodation43999.5%72.2%
Contingency accommodation—0%20.1%
— of which hotels—0%18.5%
Initial accommodation—0%1.6%
Other or unclassified20.5%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)

95,755
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
17.7%
born outside the UK (16,903)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
4.7%
cannot speak English well or at all (4,294)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Pendle has received 125 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 6 of them 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 Pendle, 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 Pendle after being required to leave Home Office asylum accommodation (January to March 2026) — of 24 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 Pendle. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/pendle
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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