MigrationWatchdog

North East

Asylum support across North East's 12 local authorities, as at 31 Mar 2026.

7,242
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
26.2
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
6,906
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
246
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
187
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

North East carries 7.4% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 26.2 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 2,762,746. The largest concentration is in Newcastle upon Tyne (1,005). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

7.6k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 7,16530 Sep 2023 — 7,43831 Dec 2023 — 6,72131 Mar 2024 — 6,91630 Jun 2024 — 6,92030 Sep 2024 — 7,43031 Dec 2024 — 7,55931 Mar 2025 — 7,47830 Jun 2025 — 7,29630 Sep 2025 — 7,27731 Dec 2025 — 7,35031 Mar 2026 — 7,242
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across North East, 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, North East's authorities have received 2,167 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 31 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Every authority in North East

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
Newcastle upon TyneEngland1,005187187805
Stockton-on-TeesEngland83727—804
SunderlandEngland805——799
NorthumberlandEngland703——698
MiddlesbroughEngland677——651
GatesheadEngland639——628
South TynesideEngland63132—598
County DurhamEngland592——578
North TynesideEngland447——443
HartlepoolEngland403——403
Redcar and ClevelandEngland275——273
DarlingtonEngland228——226
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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