South West

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Official local-authority snapshot as at 2025-12-31. This page keeps live route data and local hotel evidence on one place-level surface so pressure can be read in context.

England Population 408,967 Supported asylum 555

Recent supported asylum path in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Quarter-end place series to Dec 2025. All visible points are official quarter-end values.

555
766 511 255 0 Mar 2018 Dec 2025 Peak Mar 2023
Trend readout Dec 2025

Recent path and evidence quality

Latest move

-63 since Sept 2025

-10.2% by the latest quarter-on-quarter step.

Series span

+ 544 across the visible series

+4945.5% from the first visible point to Dec 2025.

Series quality

32 official quarter points

The visible trend line is built entirely from official quarter-end supported asylum values in the local area series.

Interactive place drill-down

Switch metric and comparison frame to read Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole as a pressure leader, rate outlier, contingency site, or three-pathway case without leaving the page.

Shareable place lens
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 3 of 27 in South West; Bristol, City of currently leads this regional measure.
Supported asylum South West

Headline asylum-support volume for this local authority.

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 3 of 27 in South West; Bristol, City of currently leads this regional measure.

Current value 555 people
Regional rank #3
National percentile 83th

Pathway breakdown

The local picture only becomes legible when supported asylum, contingency use, Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population are kept distinct.

Supported asylum
555
Homes for Ukraine
836
Afghan programme
198
Resettlement cumulative
4

What stands out here

Pressure profile

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole is carrying a real asylum-support load

555 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 13.57 per 10,000 residents. 477 are in contingency accommodation.

Three-pathway load

1,589 people across the main local pathways

This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.39% of the local population.

Hotel visibility

Public hotel evidence is still thin here

No named current hotel site is attached to this area in the starter ledger yet.

National benchmarks

These strips show where Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.

Supported asylum count

National distribution across all local-authority rows.

555
low median top 10% high
Supported asylum rate

Rate per 10,000 residents.

13.57
low median top 10% high
Contingency accommodation

Hotel and other contingency placements.

477
low median top 10% high

Regional pressure context

South West is highlighted so this place can be read inside the wider regional supported asylum map.

supported asylum total
North West 20,864 London 16,378 West Mids 13,499 Yorkshire 9,748 East Mids 7,829 South East 7,472 North East 7,350 East 6,715 Scotland 6,688 South West 4,499 Wales 3,353 N. Ireland 2,608
Highlighted tiles mark the focus regions. Darker tiles indicate higher values in the latest local-authority snapshot.

Editorial readout

These cards translate the data into the most defensible local claims the site can make right now.

2025-12-31 evidence frame
Volume

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole is outside the top ten by volume, but still carries a material local load

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 63 nationally and 3 in South West for supported asylum count, placing it around the 83th percentile of local authorities by volume.

Intensity

The rate picture is important, even where the headline count is lower

The supported asylum rate here is 13.57 per 10,000 residents, around the 65th percentile nationally. This matters because smaller places can carry a sharper load than bigger city totals imply.

Accommodation model

A large share of support is sitting in contingency accommodation

477 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 85.9% of the supported asylum population and roughly the 97th percentile by contingency count.

Visibility

The hotel layer is still mostly invisible in public records here

No named current site or unnamed acknowledged count is attached to this area yet, which is itself a reminder that absence of public evidence is not evidence of absence.

Local route metrics

The area profile should show route composition, not force users to infer it from a single asylum count.

Asylum support

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation 68
Initial accommodation 0
Subsistence only 10
Contingency accommodation 477
Ukraine and Afghan pathways

Other current routes in this place

Homes for Ukraine arrivals 836
Afghan programme population 198
Afghan local authority housing 182
Afghan private rented housing 16
Historical routes

Resettlement history

Resettlement cumulative total 4
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 4
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2019 Q3 (4)

Regional peer frame

The regional ranking matters because high-pressure areas compete for attention with their nearest peers, not just with the national top ten.

Bristol, City of
1,108 supported asylum
Swindon
562 supported asylum
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Current page | 555 supported asylum
Plymouth
513 supported asylum
Gloucester
388 supported asylum
Local reading South West

How this place reads in context

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole sits 63 nationally by supported asylum count and 3 within South West. The raw volume is 555, but the rate of 13.57 per 10,000 residents gives a cleaner sense of local intensity than the headline count on its own.

Homes for Ukraine is the largest non-asylum pathway in this area at 836. That matters because the local story is not just about one route family; it is about how asylum support, humanitarian schemes, and historic resettlement stack together in one place.

South West as a whole currently carries 4,499 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 7.64 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole inside that wider regional pressure field instead of treating it as an isolated case.

Hotel evidence for this place

Place pages should merge live route data with the named and unnamed hotel evidence already on the public record.

Evidence gap

No public hotel evidence logged yet

That does not mean the area has no hotel use. It means the ledger has no publishable public evidence row attached yet.