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Asylum accommodation in Wales

Asylum support across Wales's 21 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

3,223 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across Wales as at 30 Jun 2026 — 10.2 per 10,000 residents, including 96 in contingency hotels.

3,223
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
10.2
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
3,039
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
96
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
96
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Wales carries 3.5% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 10.2 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 3,175,181. The largest concentration is in Cardiff (1,313). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

3.4k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 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 — 3,39130 Jun 2026 — 3,223
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 June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Wales's authorities have received 1,499 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 31 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

What Wales petitioned for

38,732 signatures came from Wales 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 Wales

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
CardiffWales1,31396961,181
SwanseaWales618——600
NewportWales306——301
Rhondda Cynon TafWales188——183
WrexhamWales117——116
GwyneddWales91——91
CaerphillyWales84——84
FlintshireWales78——78
DenbighshireWales66——62
Neath Port TalbotWales64——62
CarmarthenshireWales60——53
Merthyr TydfilWales54——52
Blaenau GwentWales42——41
BridgendWales41——40
Isle of AngleseyWales26——26
ConwyWales22——20
Vale of GlamorganWales21——20
PembrokeshireWales16——15
TorfaenWales10——10
PowysWales5——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

Cite this page

Asylum accommodation in Wales. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/wales
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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