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Wakefield

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

648
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
308
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
140
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
140
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
188
in initial accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
12
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Wakefield ranks #45 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.8% of England's supported caseload — 18.3 per 10,000 residents (against the 353,370 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

850030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 63930 Sep 2023 — 85031 Dec 2023 — 57131 Mar 2024 — 46430 Jun 2024 — 70430 Sep 2024 — 81431 Dec 2024 — 72331 Mar 2025 — 74130 Jun 2025 — 73430 Sep 2025 — 83131 Dec 2025 — 71331 Mar 2026 — 648
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Wakefield, 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 (+1%).

Census context (2021)

353,370
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
8.5%
born outside the UK (30,074)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
1.3%
cannot speak English well or at all (4,566)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Wakefield has received 208 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 4 of them 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.

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