MigrationWatchdog

Wales

Asylum support across Wales's 21 local authorities, as at 31 Mar 2026.

3,391
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
10.7
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
3,143
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
100
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
100
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Wales carries 3.5% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 10.7 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 3,175,181. The largest concentration is in Cardiff (1,418). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

3.4k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 3,35830 Sep 2023 — 3,27531 Dec 2023 — 2,85731 Mar 2024 — 3,34430 Jun 2024 — 3,29030 Sep 2024 — 3,44131 Dec 2024 — 3,38131 Mar 2025 — 3,31730 Jun 2025 — 3,24630 Sep 2025 — 3,33131 Dec 2025 — 3,35331 Mar 2026 — 3,391
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across Wales, 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, Wales's authorities have received 1,491 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 34 of them in the last four published quarters.

four quarters to 2026 Q1, and cumulative since 2014 · source

Every authority in Wales

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
CardiffWales1,4181001001,228
SwanseaWales677——659
NewportWales344——340
Rhondda Cynon TafWales189——186
WrexhamWales127——127
CaerphillyWales89——85
GwyneddWales77——77
Neath Port TalbotWales63——62
DenbighshireWales62——58
FlintshireWales59——58
CarmarthenshireWales58——52
Merthyr TydfilWales45——41
BridgendWales42——41
Blaenau GwentWales40——39
Isle of AngleseyWales26——26
ConwyWales20——18
PembrokeshireWales17——16
Vale of GlamorganWales17——16
TorfaenWales10——10
PowysWales10——4
MonmouthshireWales1———
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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