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Sheffield

England · Yorkshire and The Humber — asylum support snapshot, as at 31 Mar 2026.

1,126
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
764
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
229
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
179
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
72
in initial accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
61
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Sheffield ranks #19 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 1.3% of England's supported caseload — 20.2 per 10,000 residents (against the 556,523 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

1.3k030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 030 Sep 2023 — 031 Dec 2023 — 031 Mar 2024 — 030 Jun 2024 — 030 Sep 2024 — 031 Dec 2024 — 031 Mar 2025 — 030 Jun 2025 — 030 Sep 2025 — 031 Dec 2025 — 1,26431 Mar 2026 — 1,126
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Sheffield, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Census context (2021)

556,523
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
15%
born outside the UK (83,210)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
2%
cannot speak English well or at all (11,034)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · 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. Census figures matched by authority name — the GSS code changed after 2021. Numbers say where the asylum system places people — they say nothing about any individual.

Data as of

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