MigrationWatchdog

South West

Asylum support across South West's 23 local authorities, as at 31 Mar 2026.

3,789
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
6.4
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
2,433
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,206
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,206
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

South West carries 3.9% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 6.4 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 5,906,997. The largest concentration is in Bristol, City of (879). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

5.3k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 4,75930 Sep 2023 — 5,27631 Dec 2023 — 4,98031 Mar 2024 — 4,05530 Jun 2024 — 3,98130 Sep 2024 — 4,19731 Dec 2024 — 4,37231 Mar 2025 — 4,30230 Jun 2025 — 4,51630 Sep 2025 — 4,82331 Dec 2025 — 4,49931 Mar 2026 — 3,789
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across South West, 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, South West's authorities have received 1,864 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 South West

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
Bristol, City ofEngland879472472354
SwindonEngland5156363439
PlymouthEngland495——486
Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleEngland45033933997
GloucesterEngland3167373232
SomersetEngland310106106191
WiltshireEngland205——202
South GloucestershireEngland165——156
East DevonEngland120120120—
North SomersetEngland77333342
CheltenhamEngland69——62
TorbayEngland57——54
TeignbridgeEngland35——35
ExeterEngland21——20
CornwallEngland18——17
South HamsEngland15——15
Forest of DeanEngland11——10
Bath and North East SomersetEngland8——2
StroudEngland7——6
TorridgeEngland6——6
DorsetEngland5——3
North DevonEngland4——4
West DevonEngland1———
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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