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Asylum accommodation in West Midlands

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

11,756 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across West Midlands as at 30 Jun 2026 — 18.9 per 10,000 residents, including 1,886 in contingency hotels.

11,756
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
18.9
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
9,362
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
1,886
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
1,886
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

West Midlands carries 12.6% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 18.9 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 6,205,854. The largest concentration is in Birmingham (2,136). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

15k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 14,72431 Dec 2023 — 12,67631 Mar 2024 — 11,87430 Jun 2024 — 10,51730 Sep 2024 — 11,93431 Dec 2024 — 12,61331 Mar 2025 — 12,50030 Jun 2025 — 13,27030 Sep 2025 — 13,97931 Dec 2025 — 13,49931 Mar 2026 — 11,96930 Jun 2026 — 11,756
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across West Midlands, 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, West Midlands's authorities have received 2,428 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

Enforcement activity in West Midlands

Immigration Enforcement made 884 illegal-working visits in West Midlands in Jan-26 to Jun-26 (593 in Jan-25 to Jun-25), making 701 arrests. Enforcement activity, not convictions.

to the end of June 2026 · source

What West Midlands petitioned for

62,258 signatures came from West Midlands 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 West Midlands

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
BirminghamEngland2,1365895891,345
CoventryEngland1,70097971,459
SandwellEngland1,4671151151,318
Stoke-on-TrentEngland1,021——999
WolverhamptonEngland1,018——1,002
WalsallEngland663——649
DudleyEngland611——592
RugbyEngland567433433133
Telford and WrekinEngland5627474482
WarwickEngland380262262116
Nuneaton and BedworthEngland318——314
SolihullEngland20512112180
Newcastle-under-LymeEngland192——184
East StaffordshireEngland149——146
TamworthEngland133888845
ShropshireEngland111——110
WorcesterEngland78282847
StaffordEngland76——75
North WarwickshireEngland67——67
Stratford-on-AvonEngland636262—
Wyre ForestEngland56——54
WychavonEngland42——36
Staffordshire MoorlandsEngland36——36
Cannock ChaseEngland29——27
Herefordshire, County ofEngland25——16
South StaffordshireEngland2217173
RedditchEngland13——12
Malvern HillsEngland7——7
LichfieldEngland5——5
BromsgroveEngland4——3
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 West Midlands. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/west-midlands
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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