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Asylum accommodation in East Midlands

Asylum support across East Midlands's 34 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

7,710 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across East Midlands as at 30 Jun 2026 — 15.2 per 10,000 residents, including 710 in contingency hotels.

7,710
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
15.2
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
6,623
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
710
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
710
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

East Midlands carries 8.3% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 15.2 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 5,085,641. The largest concentration is in Nottingham (1,352). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

7.8k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 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 — 7,67230 Jun 2026 — 7,710
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 June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, East Midlands's authorities have received 1,068 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 26 of them in the last four published quarters.

four quarters to 2026 Q2, and cumulative since 2014 · source

Enforcement activity in East Midlands

Immigration Enforcement made 282 illegal-working visits in East Midlands in Jan-26 to Jun-26 (274 in Jan-25 to Jun-25), making 151 arrests. Enforcement activity, not convictions.

to the end of June 2026 · source

What East Midlands petitioned for

55,255 signatures came from East Midlands on the largest immigration or asylum petition of the current record — “Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants” (720,772 signatures in total, including those recorded outside the UK regions). The wording is the petition creator's, not this site's, and the count measures support for that wording. All petitions →

petitions open or closed as at 2026-09-21 · source

Every authority in East Midlands

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
NottinghamEngland1,35246461,266
LeicesterEngland1,3331451451,154
DerbyEngland1,127140140794
North NorthamptonshireEngland641——639
West NorthamptonshireEngland478271271177
South KestevenEngland283——279
BroxtoweEngland264——260
BassetlawEngland197——193
MansfieldEngland192——187
AshfieldEngland185——182
Hinckley and BosworthEngland143——136
BolsoverEngland138——138
Amber ValleyEngland124——123
GedlingEngland121——116
East LindseyEngland110121297
Newark and SherwoodEngland110——110
BostonEngland108——107
CharnwoodEngland1039989
North West LeicestershireEngland101——93
ErewashEngland9082824
South HollandEngland76——76
West LindseyEngland64——64
North East DerbyshireEngland60——60
RushcliffeEngland60——58
ChesterfieldEngland495543
South DerbyshireEngland36——34
North KestevenEngland35——35
BlabyEngland34——32
Oadby and WigstonEngland32——30
LincolnEngland30——23
MeltonEngland16——15
High PeakEngland9——1
RutlandEngland8——8
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

Cite this page

Asylum accommodation in East Midlands. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/east-midlands
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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