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Pendle

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

434
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
431
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
3
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Pendle ranks #74 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.5% of England's supported caseload — 45.3 per 10,000 residents (against the 95,755 usual residents counted in 2021). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

525030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 41430 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 — 434
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 March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Broadly flat since 30 Jun 2023 (+5%).

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 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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