East of England

Norwich

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 147,182 Supported asylum 351

Recent supported asylum path in Norwich

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

351
416 277 139 0 Mar 2014 Dec 2025 Peak Sept 2023
Trend readout Dec 2025

Recent path and evidence quality

Latest move

-35 since Sept 2025

-9.1% by the latest quarter-on-quarter step.

Series span

+ 239 across the visible series

+213.4% from the first visible point to Dec 2025.

Series quality

48 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 Norwich as a pressure leader, rate outlier, contingency site, or three-pathway case without leaving the page.

Shareable place lens
Norwich ranks 7 of 45 in East of England; Luton currently leads this regional measure.

Pathway breakdown

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

Supported asylum
351
Homes for Ukraine
278
Afghan programme
126
Resettlement cumulative
297

What stands out here

Pressure profile

Norwich is carrying a real asylum-support load

351 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 23.85 per 10,000 residents. 162 are in contingency accommodation.

Three-pathway load

755 people across the main local pathways

This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.51% 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 Norwich sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.

Supported asylum count

National distribution across all local-authority rows.

351
low median top 10% high
Supported asylum rate

Rate per 10,000 residents.

23.85
low median top 10% high
Contingency accommodation

Hotel and other contingency placements.

162
low median top 10% high

Regional pressure context

East of England 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

Norwich is outside the top ten by volume, but still carries a material local load

Norwich ranks 104 nationally and 7 in East of England for supported asylum count, placing it around the 71th 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 23.85 per 10,000 residents, around the 82th 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

162 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 46.2% of the supported asylum population and roughly the 83th 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 180
Initial accommodation 0
Subsistence only 9
Contingency accommodation 162
Ukraine and Afghan pathways

Other current routes in this place

Homes for Ukraine arrivals 278
Afghan programme population 126
Afghan local authority housing 124
Afghan private rented housing 2
Historical routes

Resettlement history

Resettlement cumulative total 297
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 297
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2025 Q4 (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.

Luton
710 supported asylum
Braintree
691 supported asylum
Peterborough
508 supported asylum
Dacorum
464 supported asylum
Chelmsford
368 supported asylum
Norwich
Current page | 351 supported asylum
Local reading East of England

How this place reads in context

Norwich sits 104 nationally by supported asylum count and 7 within East of England. The raw volume is 351, but the rate of 23.85 per 10,000 residents gives a cleaner sense of local intensity than the headline count on its own.

Resettlement cumulative is the largest non-asylum pathway in this area at 297. 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.

East of England as a whole currently carries 6,715 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 10.21 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Norwich 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.