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Asylum accommodation in North West

Asylum support across North West's 35 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

18,962 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across North West as at 30 Jun 2026 — 24.4 per 10,000 residents, including 1,878 in contingency hotels.

18,962
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
24.4
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
16,349
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
1,878
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
1,878
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

North West carries 20.3% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 24.4 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 7,772,854. The largest concentration is in Liverpool (1,961). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

22k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 22,37931 Dec 2023 — 18,64331 Mar 2024 — 18,31030 Jun 2024 — 19,60630 Sep 2024 — 21,08431 Dec 2024 — 21,16631 Mar 2025 — 20,41630 Jun 2025 — 21,19630 Sep 2025 — 21,68431 Dec 2025 — 20,86431 Mar 2026 — 19,57830 Jun 2026 — 18,962
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across North West, 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 West's authorities have received 2,119 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 North West

Immigration Enforcement made 752 illegal-working visits in North West in Jan-26 to Jun-26 (801 in Jan-25 to Jun-25), making 393 arrests. Enforcement activity, not convictions.

to the end of June 2026 · source

What North West petitioned for

93,192 signatures came from North West 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 West

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
LiverpoolEngland1,9612082081,390
ManchesterEngland1,509708708675
WiganEngland1,193——1,183
BoltonEngland1,037——1,007
Blackburn with DarwenEngland760——746
OldhamEngland7337070640
RochdaleEngland727——708
WirralEngland7013030658
StockportEngland664485485167
SalfordEngland656——632
Cheshire West and ChesterEngland654——652
HaltonEngland604——599
St. HelensEngland560——560
CumberlandEngland493——492
TamesideEngland488——477
BurnleyEngland471——466
PendleEngland441——439
HyndburnEngland426——423
West LancashireEngland420——419
SeftonEngland411——399
PrestonEngland407——396
WarringtonEngland397127127266
South RibbleEngland385151151234
BuryEngland368——359
WyreEngland361——361
Cheshire EastEngland35822344
KnowsleyEngland309——307
Westmorland and FurnessEngland240——238
ChorleyEngland239——239
LancasterEngland238——236
RossendaleEngland238——238
BlackpoolEngland2361616214
TraffordEngland165818174
FyldeEngland88——87
Ribble ValleyEngland24——24
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 West. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/north-west
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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