Asylum accommodation in Powys
Wales — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.
5 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Powys as at 30 Jun 2026.
Powys ranks #323 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.2% of Wales's supported caseload — 0.4 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 134,843). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Wales overview → · Compare all authorities →
The last 12 quarters
Broadly flat since 30 Sep 2023 (0%).
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 10 (30 Sep 2025) and the lowest 0 (31 Dec 2023). The latest is 5. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.
Rank, then and now
Powys ranked #280 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #323 of 346 now. It has moved down 43 places.
Its own caseload changed by 0 over the same period, against -52 across Wales.
Accommodation mix, against Wales
| Accommodation type | People here | Share here | Share in Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dispersal accommodation | 4 | 80% | 94.3% |
| Contingency accommodation | — | 0% | 3% |
| — of which hotels | — | 0% | 3% |
| Other or unclassified | 1 | 20% | 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, Powys has received 148 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 13 of them in the last four published quarters.
Ranked nearby
Data as of
Cite this page
Asylum accommodation in Powys. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02. https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/powys 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