MigrationWatchdog

London

Asylum support across London's 33 local authorities, as at 31 Mar 2026.

13,687
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
15
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
4,057
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
7,901
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
7,049
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

London carries 14% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 15 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 9,122,909. The largest concentration is in Hillingdon (1,532). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

25k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 25,16030 Sep 2023 — 24,38331 Dec 2023 — 21,71531 Mar 2024 — 20,15430 Jun 2024 — 18,04430 Sep 2024 — 19,92231 Dec 2024 — 20,16131 Mar 2025 — 19,96030 Jun 2025 — 17,16130 Sep 2025 — 18,12731 Dec 2025 — 16,37831 Mar 2026 — 13,687
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across London, 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, London's authorities have received 1,485 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 52 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Every authority in London

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
HillingdonEngland1,5321,3101,310137
HounslowEngland1,2981,0981,098136
EalingEngland1,163388187632
BarnetEngland1,13799253338
NewhamEngland1,030697697280
CroydonEngland974581581140
BrentEngland902575575160
SouthwarkEngland50235935917
Tower HamletsEngland48866—399
RedbridgeEngland459105105325
HackneyEngland45840434428
EnfieldEngland361——207
LambethEngland34628228245
HarrowEngland32766—199
Barking and DagenhamEngland301——271
Hammersmith and FulhamEngland28624824812
MertonEngland25315015077
LewishamEngland24512012088
CamdenEngland2231981987
Kensington and ChelseaEngland205202202—
HaveringEngland176——161
HaringeyEngland161——86
Waltham ForestEngland158——113
BromleyEngland1481818121
GreenwichEngland144——113
BexleyEngland109——106
Kingston upon ThamesEngland84424228
WandsworthEngland84——68
IslingtonEngland56——26
WestminsterEngland33——8
SuttonEngland29——18
Richmond upon ThamesEngland14——11
City of LondonEngland1———
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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