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Wirral

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

705
asylum seekers supported
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
664
in dispersal accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
37
in contingency accommodation
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
37
of which in hotels
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source
4
other or unclassified support
as at 31 Mar 2026 · source

Wirral ranks #35 of 344 UK local authorities with supported asylum seekers, carrying 0.8% of England's supported caseload — 22 per 10,000 residents (against the 320,200 usual residents counted in 2021). Compare all authorities →

The last 12 quarters

789030 Jun 202331 Mar 202630 Jun 2023 — 71330 Sep 2023 — 72731 Dec 2023 — 69831 Mar 2024 — 76330 Jun 2024 — 74130 Sep 2024 — 77431 Dec 2024 — 75531 Mar 2025 — 73430 Jun 2025 — 71730 Sep 2025 — 75631 Dec 2025 — 78931 Mar 2026 — 705
People in receipt of Home Office asylum support in Wirral, 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)

320,200
usual residents
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
5.4%
born outside the UK (17,411)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source
0.5%
cannot speak English well or at all (1,530)
Census day, 21 March 2021 · source

The legal route, locally

Alongside asylum dispersal, Wirral has received 155 people through formal resettlement schemes since 2014 — 3 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.

Data as of

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