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Asylum accommodation in London

Asylum support across London's 33 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

12,140 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across London as at 30 Jun 2026 — 13.3 per 10,000 residents, including 5,487 in contingency hotels.

12,140
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
13.3
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
4,051
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
6,155
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
5,487
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

London carries 13% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 13.3 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 9,122,909. The largest concentration is in Hillingdon (1,188). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

24k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 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 — 13,68730 Jun 2026 — 12,140
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 June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, London's authorities have received 1,514 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 59 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Enforcement activity in London

Immigration Enforcement made 1,814 illegal-working visits in London in Jan-26 to Jun-26 (1,260 in Jan-25 to Jun-25), making 1,256 arrests. Enforcement activity, not convictions.

to the end of June 2026 · source

What London petitioned for

39,922 signatures came from London 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 London

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
HillingdonEngland1,188965965138
HounslowEngland1,139924924142
EalingEngland1,073298130617
CroydonEngland1,008557557140
BarnetEngland87873138231
NewhamEngland866541541272
BrentEngland789427427179
SouthwarkEngland49628028020
Tower HamletsEngland47348—403
RedbridgeEngland4136969318
HackneyEngland37331226625
EnfieldEngland353——191
HarrowEngland34357—218
LambethEngland28520620656
Barking and DagenhamEngland271——244
Hammersmith and FulhamEngland2252002001
LewishamEngland210818195
MertonEngland20911811868
HaveringEngland186——173
Kensington and ChelseaEngland180179179—
CamdenEngland1681411417
Waltham ForestEngland161——115
HaringeyEngland154——87
GreenwichEngland153——120
BromleyEngland144——129
BexleyEngland115——109
WandsworthEngland73——55
IslingtonEngland661134
Kingston upon ThamesEngland62202028
WestminsterEngland42——8
SuttonEngland28——17
Richmond upon ThamesEngland15——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

Cite this page

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

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