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Sandwell

England · West Midlands — asylum support snapshot, as at 31 Mar 2026.

1,500
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
1,328
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
136
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
136
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
36
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Sandwell ranks #9 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 1.8% of England's supported caseload — 43.9 per 10,000 residents (against the 341,833 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

1.7k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 1,41030 Sep 2023 — 1,55431 Dec 2023 — 1,43731 Mar 2024 — 1,55530 Jun 2024 — 1,41630 Sep 2024 — 1,63131 Dec 2024 — 1,64631 Mar 2025 — 1,67830 Jun 2025 — 1,67130 Sep 2025 — 1,67931 Dec 2025 — 1,59531 Mar 2026 — 1,500
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Sandwell, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Broadly flat since 30 Jun 2023 (+6%).

Census context (2021)

341,833
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
23.6%
born outside the UK (80,620)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
5%
cannot speak English well or at all (16,393)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Sandwell has received 6 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 (none in the last four published quarters).

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

Ranked nearby

Support counts are a point-in-time snapshot by registered address; contingency sites open and close between quarters. Census figures are from March 2021 and predate arrivals since. Numbers say where the asylum system places people — they say nothing about any individual.

Data as of

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