Home Office · local authority: Leicester
Asylum seekers receiving support: Leicester
at 30 June 2026
1,333 people
Asylum seekers receiving support for Leicester was 1,333 people at 30 June 2026, down 2.7% (37) on the period before.
- Home Office dataset
- Data_Asy_D11
- all rows; Local Authority=Leicester
- column “People”
- sum of 6 rows per period
- published 27 August 2026
March 2014 to June 2026
The chart as a table
| Period | Asylum support by local authority |
|---|---|
| March 2014 | 657 people |
| June 2014 | 776 people |
| September 2014 | 832 people |
| December 2014 | 865 people |
| March 2015 | 836 people |
| June 2015 | 851 people |
| September 2015 | 877 people |
| December 2015 | 918 people |
| March 2016 | 928 people |
| June 2016 | 933 people |
| September 2016 | 934 people |
| December 2016 | 926 people |
| March 2017 | 927 people |
| June 2017 | 899 people |
| September 2017 | 903 people |
| December 2017 | 911 people |
| March 2018 | 1,087 people |
| June 2018 | 1,041 people |
| September 2018 | 1,016 people |
| December 2018 | 993 people |
| March 2019 | 975 people |
| June 2019 | 975 people |
| September 2019 | 935 people |
| December 2019 | 915 people |
| March 2020 | 897 people |
| June 2020 | 949 people |
| September 2020 | 957 people |
| December 2020 | 938 people |
| March 2021 | 914 people |
| June 2021 | 916 people |
| September 2021 | 895 people |
| December 2021 | 906 people |
| March 2022 | 879 people |
| June 2022 | 935 people |
| September 2022 | 947 people |
| December 2022 | 1,380 people |
| March 2023 | 1,397 people |
| June 2023 | 1,596 people |
| September 2023 | 1,704 people |
| December 2023 | 1,596 people |
| March 2024 | 1,660 people |
| June 2024 | 1,527 people |
| September 2024 | 1,513 people |
| December 2024 | 1,527 people |
| March 2025 | 1,538 people |
| June 2025 | 1,559 people |
| September 2025 | 1,579 people |
| December 2025 | 1,512 people |
| March 2026 | 1,370 people |
| June 2026 | 1,333 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 the local authority they are accommodated in. This is a stock, not a flow.
Refugees who have been granted status, people on resettlement or Ukraine schemes, or the share of a local authority's population; local authority names are as published and not mapped to official codes.
Source
- Dataset
- Immigration system statistics: asylum seekers in receipt of support by local authority dataset
- Release
- Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 d2207eed53afa18c…
- All values
- Asylum seekers receiving support by local authority