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Asylum accommodation in Torfaen

Wales — asylum support snapshot, as at 30 Jun 2026.

10 asylum seekers were in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Torfaen as at 30 Jun 2026.

10
asylum seekers supported
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source
10
in dispersal accommodation
as at 30 Jun 2026 · source

Torfaen ranks #302 of 346 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.3% of Wales's supported caseload — 1.1 per 10,000 residents (against the mid-2025 population estimate of 93,973). No contingency accommodation (hotel or otherwise) is recorded here at this snapshot. Wales overview → · Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

14030 Sep 202330 Jun 202630 Sep 2023 — 431 Dec 2023 — 931 Mar 2024 — 1230 Jun 2024 — 1230 Sep 2024 — 1231 Dec 2024 — 1431 Mar 2025 — 930 Jun 2025 — 930 Sep 2025 — 1231 Dec 2025 — 1231 Mar 2026 — 1030 Jun 2026 — 10
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Torfaen, quarterly snapshots. Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support by local authority, year ending June 2026 (Home Office, Immigration system statistics).

Up 150% since 30 Sep 2023.

Where this sits in the record

Everything here comes from the same published accommodation table as the figures above, across the 12 quarters it covers — so it is available for every authority in all four nations, and no figure is combined with one from a different collection.

Highest and lowest recorded

The highest quarter recorded here is 14 (31 Dec 2024) and the lowest 4 (30 Sep 2023). The latest is 10. The series starts at 30 Sep 2023, so an earlier or later extreme would not appear in it.

Rank, then and now

Torfaen ranked #287 of 315 authorities with a recorded caseload in 30 Sep 2023, and #302 of 346 now. It has moved down 15 places.

Its own caseload changed by +6 over the same period, against -52 across Wales.

Accommodation mix, against Wales

Accommodation type in Torfaen as a share of its supported population, against Wales
Accommodation typePeople hereShare hereShare in Wales
Dispersal accommodation10100%94.3%
Contingency accommodation—0%3%
— of which hotels—0%3%
Other or unclassified—0%2.7%

Hotels are a subset of contingency accommodation, so the shares do not sum to 100%. Both columns come from the same snapshot of the same table.

What is not published for Wales

Two sections on this site's English local-authority pages have no counterpart here, and that is a gap in what is collected rather than an omission by this site:

  • Pupils whose first language is not English — the Department for Education publishes it for England only.
  • Households owed a homelessness duty after leaving asylum accommodation — MHCLG's statutory homelessness collection covers England only.

Nothing has been substituted for them. Where a comparable Wales figure exists in a different collection on a different basis, putting it in the same table as the English one would invent a comparison the publishers did not make.

Census context (2021)

92,276
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
3.6%
born outside the UK (3,286)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
0.3%
cannot speak English well or at all (240)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Torfaen has received 33 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 (none in the last four published quarters).

four quarters to 2026 Q2, 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

Cite this page

Asylum accommodation in Torfaen. Migration Watchdog, data as of 2026-09-02.
https://migrationwatchdog.com/local/torfaen
Underlying figures: UK official statistics, re-published under OGL v3.0 — every figure links to its source on the page.

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