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Asylum accommodation in Yorkshire and The Humber

Asylum support across Yorkshire and The Humber's 15 local authorities, as at 30 Jun 2026.

8,164 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office support across Yorkshire and The Humber as at 30 Jun 2026 — 14.4 per 10,000 residents, including 1,206 in contingency hotels.

8,164
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
14.4
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
6,257
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
1,258
in contingency accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
1,206
of which in hotels
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Yorkshire and The Humber carries 8.8% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 14.4 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 5,672,166. The largest concentration is in Leeds (1,365). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

9.7k030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 9,73131 Dec 2023 — 7,92531 Mar 2024 — 7,72730 Jun 2024 — 8,47030 Sep 2024 — 8,95231 Dec 2024 — 8,64031 Mar 2025 — 8,25330 Jun 2025 — 8,16530 Sep 2025 — 8,51031 Dec 2025 — 9,74831 Mar 2026 — 8,63530 Jun 2026 — 8,164
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support across Yorkshire and The Humber, 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, Yorkshire and The Humber's authorities have received 2,469 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 23 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Enforcement activity in Yorkshire and The Humber

Immigration Enforcement made 280 illegal-working visits in Yorkshire and The Humber in Jan-26 to Jun-26 (210 in Jan-25 to Jun-25), making 195 arrests. Enforcement activity, not convictions.

to the end of June 2026 · source

What Yorkshire and The Humber petitioned for

65,819 signatures came from Yorkshire and The Humber 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 Yorkshire and The Humber

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
LeedsEngland1,3652092091,106
BradfordEngland1,097157157898
SheffieldEngland1,034184132730
WakefieldEngland724114114313
KirkleesEngland668——650
DoncasterEngland5385656456
Kingston upon Hull, City ofEngland522116116386
CalderdaleEngland452——440
RotherhamEngland388——378
YorkEngland366360360—
North YorkshireEngland3256262255
BarnsleyEngland276——264
North East LincolnshireEngland267——253
North LincolnshireEngland87——78
East Riding of YorkshireEngland55——50
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 Yorkshire and The Humber. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/region/yorkshire-and-the-humber
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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