Home Office · accommodation type: Dispersal Accommodation
Asylum seekers receiving support: Dispersal Accommodation
at 30 June 2026
69,038 people
Asylum seekers receiving support for Dispersal Accommodation was 69,038 people at 30 June 2026, up 0.5% (319) on the period before.
- Home Office dataset
- Data_Asy_D09
- all rows; Accommodation Type=Dispersal Accommodation
- column “People”
- sum of 1982 rows per period
- published 27 August 2026
March 2014 to June 2026
The chart as a table
| Period | Asylum support by accommodation type |
|---|---|
| March 2014 | 27,262 people |
| June 2014 | 28,492 people |
| September 2014 | 29,451 people |
| December 2014 | 31,343 people |
| March 2015 | 31,944 people |
| June 2015 | 31,641 people |
| September 2015 | 32,793 people |
| December 2015 | 35,253 people |
| March 2016 | 36,575 people |
| June 2016 | 38,099 people |
| September 2016 | 39,019 people |
| December 2016 | 40,399 people |
| March 2017 | 40,325 people |
| June 2017 | 40,003 people |
| September 2017 | 40,434 people |
| December 2017 | 41,830 people |
| March 2018 | 43,465 people |
| June 2018 | 44,055 people |
| September 2018 | 44,545 people |
| December 2018 | 45,348 people |
| March 2019 | 46,505 people |
| June 2019 | 46,075 people |
| September 2019 | 45,071 people |
| December 2019 | 44,506 people |
| March 2020 | 45,465 people |
| June 2020 | 47,646 people |
| September 2020 | 48,463 people |
| December 2020 | 47,482 people |
| March 2021 | 46,518 people |
| June 2021 | 47,568 people |
| September 2021 | 47,036 people |
| December 2021 | 55,562 people |
| March 2022 | 53,530 people |
| June 2022 | 58,965 people |
| September 2022 | 58,503 people |
| December 2022 | 56,143 people |
| March 2023 | 56,979 people |
| June 2023 | 58,636 people |
| September 2023 | 58,444 people |
| December 2023 | 56,489 people |
| March 2024 | 61,251 people |
| June 2024 | 61,778 people |
| September 2024 | 65,312 people |
| December 2024 | 65,707 people |
| March 2025 | 66,683 people |
| June 2025 | 66,234 people |
| September 2025 | 66,232 people |
| December 2025 | 68,538 people |
| March 2026 | 68,719 people |
| June 2026 | 69,038 people |
What this measures
The number of people (main applicants and their dependants) receiving Home Office asylum support at the end of the quarter, split by accommodation type, including hotels (contingency accommodation), dispersal accommodation and subsistence-only support. This is a stock, not a flow.
People accommodated by local authorities or other schemes, or the cost of support.
Source
- Dataset
- Immigration system statistics: asylum seekers in receipt of support dataset
- Release
- Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 72f915e4ae27e78b…
- All values
- Asylum seekers receiving support by accommodation type