MigrationWatchdog

East Midlands

Asylum support across East Midlands's 34 local authorities, as at 31 Mar 2026.

7,672
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
15.1
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
6,256
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,037
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,037
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

East Midlands carries 7.9% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 15.1 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 5,085,641. The largest concentration is in Nottingham (1,538). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

7.8k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 7,09030 Sep 2023 — 7,46431 Dec 2023 — 6,01631 Mar 2024 — 5,54930 Jun 2024 — 4,73730 Sep 2024 — 5,56031 Dec 2024 — 6,20431 Mar 2025 — 6,49030 Jun 2025 — 7,24530 Sep 2025 — 7,72331 Dec 2025 — 7,82931 Mar 2026 — 7,672
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across East Midlands, quarterly snapshots — sum of the region's local authorities. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, East Midlands's authorities have received 1,058 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 32 of them in the last four published quarters.

four quarters to 2026 Q1, and cumulative since 2014 · source

Every authority in East Midlands

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
NottinghamEngland1,5382382381,263
LeicesterEngland1,3702152151,130
DerbyEngland1,1069999796
North NorthamptonshireEngland613——610
West NorthamptonshireEngland436271271137
South KestevenEngland270——266
BroxtoweEngland234——231
CharnwoodEngland21011811888
BassetlawEngland203——198
MansfieldEngland193——185
AshfieldEngland157——155
BolsoverEngland141——141
BostonEngland113——112
Amber ValleyEngland109——108
North West LeicestershireEngland98——93
Hinckley and BosworthEngland95——88
East LindseyEngland953392
Newark and SherwoodEngland94——92
GedlingEngland90——84
ErewashEngland8779794
South HollandEngland79——78
North East DerbyshireEngland58——58
West LindseyEngland55——55
RushcliffeEngland46——43
Oadby and WigstonEngland34——32
BlabyEngland32——31
ChesterfieldEngland30141415
South DerbyshireEngland24——22
North KestevenEngland17——17
MeltonEngland15——14
LincolnEngland14——10
RutlandEngland8——8
High PeakEngland7———
HarboroughEngland1———
Counts are people supported at the snapshot date, by the local authority of their registered address; contingency sites open and close between quarters. The table lists only authorities with supported people — authorities with none are omitted by the source, but the population denominator is the published region-level estimate, not a sum of the rows shown. Numbers say where the asylum system places people — they say nothing about any individual.

Data as of

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