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Asylum accommodation in North East

Asylum support across North East's 12 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

7,049 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across North East as at 30 Jun 2026 — 25.5 per 10,000 residents, including 136 in contingency hotels.

7,049
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
25.5
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
6,754
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
198
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
136
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

North East carries 7.6% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 25.5 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 2,762,746. The largest concentration is in Newcastle upon Tyne (915). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

7.6k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 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 — 7,24230 Jun 2026 — 7,049
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 June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, North East's authorities have received 2,175 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 38 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Enforcement activity in North East

Immigration Enforcement made 216 illegal-working visits in North East in Jan-26 to Jun-26 (221 in Jan-25 to Jun-25), making 91 arrests. Enforcement activity, not convictions.

to the end of June 2026 · source

What North East petitioned for

41,956 signatures came from North East 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 North East

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
Newcastle upon TyneEngland915136136758
SunderlandEngland823——818
Stockton-on-TeesEngland82229—786
NorthumberlandEngland678——673
MiddlesbroughEngland671——651
County DurhamEngland634——619
South TynesideEngland62833—593
GatesheadEngland606——597
North TynesideEngland436——431
HartlepoolEngland379——379
Redcar and ClevelandEngland243——238
DarlingtonEngland214——211
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 North East. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/north-east
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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