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Asylum accommodation in Scotland

Asylum support across Scotland's 28 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

6,853 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across Scotland as at 30 Jun 2026 — 12.4 per 10,000 residents, including 675 in contingency hotels.

6,853
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
12.4
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
5,584
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
675
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
675
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Scotland carries 7.3% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 12.4 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 5,545,500. The largest concentration is in Glasgow City (3,938). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

6.9k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 6,09031 Dec 2023 — 5,58931 Mar 2024 — 5,80430 Jun 2024 — 5,54630 Sep 2024 — 5,99131 Dec 2024 — 6,05731 Mar 2025 — 6,06330 Jun 2025 — 6,10730 Sep 2025 — 6,35031 Dec 2025 — 6,68831 Mar 2026 — 6,58730 Jun 2026 — 6,853
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across Scotland, 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, Scotland's authorities have received 3,446 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 106 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

What Scotland petitioned for

54,835 signatures came from Scotland 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 Scotland

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
Glasgow CityScotland3,938——3,535
Aberdeen CityScotland7189999599
South LanarkshireScotland2698989163
North LanarkshireScotland267——255
InverclydeScotland261102102154
AberdeenshireScotland2169292123
City of EdinburghScotland181737369
RenfrewshireScotland133676752
North AyrshireScotland82——79
MidlothianScotland79——70
Dundee CityScotland78——56
East AyrshireScotland78——74
East LothianScotland75——72
AngusScotland73——66
Perth and KinrossScotland7067671
FalkirkScotland67373728
West DunbartonshireScotland49——42
FifeScotland45——39
Scottish BordersScotland38——38
West LothianScotland3123235
Dumfries and GallowayScotland302626—
ClackmannanshireScotland20——19
South AyrshireScotland20——18
East DunbartonshireScotland17——17
East RenfrewshireScotland9——4
StirlingScotland6——6
MorayScotland2———
Argyll and ButeScotland1———
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 Scotland. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/scotland
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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