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Asylum accommodation in South West

Asylum support across South West's 24 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

3,387 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across South West as at 30 Jun 2026 — 5.7 per 10,000 residents, including 803 in contingency hotels.

3,387
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
5.7
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
2,431
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
803
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
803
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

South West carries 3.6% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 5.7 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 5,906,997. The largest concentration is in Bristol, City of (689). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

5.3k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 5,34931 Dec 2023 — 4,98031 Mar 2024 — 4,05530 Jun 2024 — 3,98130 Sep 2024 — 4,20131 Dec 2024 — 4,37631 Mar 2025 — 4,30630 Jun 2025 — 4,52030 Sep 2025 — 4,82431 Dec 2025 — 4,49931 Mar 2026 — 3,78930 Jun 2026 — 3,387
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 June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, South West's authorities have received 1,879 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 18 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Enforcement activity in South West

Immigration Enforcement made 895 illegal-working visits in South West in Jan-26 to Jun-26 (556 in Jan-25 to Jun-25), making 693 arrests. Enforcement activity, not convictions.

to the end of June 2026 · source

What South West petitioned for

62,820 signatures came from South 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 South West

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
Bristol, City ofEngland689318318319
SwindonEngland5115252448
PlymouthEngland490——482
Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleEngland333200200113
GloucesterEngland2905757221
SomersetEngland19833181
WiltshireEngland196——189
South GloucestershireEngland151——142
CheltenhamEngland143——137
East DevonEngland125125125—
North SomersetEngland83484834
TeignbridgeEngland42——42
TorbayEngland31——30
ExeterEngland26——24
South HamsEngland18——18
CornwallEngland15——14
StroudEngland13——11
North DevonEngland6——6
DorsetEngland6——3
Forest of DeanEngland6——5
TorridgeEngland6——6
TewkesburyEngland4——4
Bath and North East SomersetEngland4——2
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

Cite this page

Asylum accommodation in South West. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/south-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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