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West Midlands

Asylum support across West Midlands's 29 local authorities, as at 31 Mar 2026.

11,969
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
19.3
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
9,213
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
2,314
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
2,314
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

West Midlands carries 12.3% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 19.3 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 6,205,854. The largest concentration is in Birmingham (2,142). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

15k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 13,38030 Sep 2023 — 14,72231 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 — 11,969
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 March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, West Midlands's authorities have received 2,393 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 30 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Every authority in West Midlands

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
BirminghamEngland2,1425895891,380
CoventryEngland1,7121281281,444
SandwellEngland1,5001361361,328
Stoke-on-TrentEngland1,189179179997
WolverhamptonEngland1,09459591,025
DudleyEngland6634141607
WalsallEngland650——638
Telford and WrekinEngland5668989473
RugbyEngland506391391115
WarwickEngland36028128176
Nuneaton and BedworthEngland310——303
SolihullEngland20712312380
Newcastle-under-LymeEngland181——176
East StaffordshireEngland147——145
Stratford-on-AvonEngland123122122—
WychavonEngland111666643
TamworthEngland95575738
WorcesterEngland72333338
North WarwickshireEngland65——65
StaffordEngland53——50
ShropshireEngland51——50
Wyre ForestEngland47——45
Staffordshire MoorlandsEngland35——35
Cannock ChaseEngland28——26
South StaffordshireEngland2420203
Herefordshire, County ofEngland17——13
RedditchEngland14——14
BromsgroveEngland4——3
LichfieldEngland3——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

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