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St. Helens

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

576
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
576
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

St. Helens ranks #54 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.7% of England's supported caseload — 31.4 per 10,000 residents (against the 183,247 usual residents counted in 2021). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

750030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 75030 Sep 2023 — 75031 Dec 2023 — 60831 Mar 2024 — 58630 Jun 2024 — 63630 Sep 2024 — 62631 Dec 2024 — 62631 Mar 2025 — 59230 Jun 2025 — 62830 Sep 2025 — 64431 Dec 2025 — 66831 Mar 2026 — 576
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in St. Helens, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending March 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Down 23% since 30 Jun 2023.

Census context (2021)

183,247
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
5%
born outside the UK (9,191)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
0.6%
cannot speak English well or at all (1,119)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, St. Helens has received 127 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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