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Yorkshire and The Humber

Asylum support across Yorkshire and The Humber's 15 local authorities, as at 31 Mar 2026.

8,635
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
15.2
per 10,000 residents (mid-2025)
mid-2025 (one year earlier where the latest estimate is not yet published) · source
6,504
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,572
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,474
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Yorkshire and The Humber carries 8.9% of the UK's supported asylum caseload — 15.2 per 10,000 residents against its mid-2025 population estimate of 5,672,166. The largest concentration is in Leeds (1,416). All UK authorities →

The last 12 quarters

9.7k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 8,94930 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 — 8,635
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 March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

The legal route, regionally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Yorkshire and The Humber's authorities have received 2,456 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 15 of them in the last four published quarters.

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

Every authority in Yorkshire and The Humber

Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support, by local authority
LeedsEngland1,4162762761,086
BradfordEngland1,266233185996
SheffieldEngland1,126229179764
KirkleesEngland707——685
WakefieldEngland648140140308
Kingston upon Hull, City ofEngland608149149435
DoncasterEngland5617474473
CalderdaleEngland5092626474
RotherhamEngland403——394
North YorkshireEngland352115115230
YorkEngland341330330—
North East LincolnshireEngland282——276
BarnsleyEngland269——258
North LincolnshireEngland74——63
East Riding of YorkshireEngland73——62
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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