North West

Liverpool

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 508,961 Supported asylum 2,189

Interactive place drill-down

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

Shareable place lens
Liverpool currently leads North West on supported asylum.

Pathway breakdown

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

Supported asylum
2,189
Homes for Ukraine
585
Afghan programme
206
Resettlement cumulative
175

What stands out here

Pressure profile

Liverpool is carrying a real asylum-support load

2,189 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 43.01 per 10,000 residents. 415 are in contingency accommodation.

Three-pathway load

2,980 people across the main local pathways

This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.59% 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 Liverpool sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.

Supported asylum count

National distribution across all local-authority rows.

2,189
low median top 10% high
Supported asylum rate

Rate per 10,000 residents.

43.01
low median top 10% high
Contingency accommodation

Hotel and other contingency placements.

415
low median top 10% high

Regional pressure context

North 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

Liverpool is one of the highest-volume asylum support areas in the UK

Liverpool ranks 3 nationally and 1 in North West for supported asylum count, placing it around the 99th percentile of local authorities by volume.

Intensity

Intensity is stronger than the raw count alone suggests

The supported asylum rate here is 43.01 per 10,000 residents, around the 95th percentile nationally. This matters because smaller places can carry a sharper load than bigger city totals imply.

Accommodation model

The local picture leans more toward dispersal than contingency pressure

415 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 19% of the supported asylum population and roughly the 95th 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 1,397
Initial accommodation 302
Subsistence only 75
Contingency accommodation 415
Ukraine and Afghan pathways

Other current routes in this place

Homes for Ukraine arrivals 585
Afghan programme population 206
Afghan local authority housing 180
Afghan private rented housing 26
Historical routes

Resettlement history

Resettlement cumulative total 175
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 175
Community sponsorship cumulative 4
Latest resettlement quarter 2022 Q1 (14)

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.

Liverpool
Current page | 2,189 supported asylum
Manchester
1,846 supported asylum
Wigan
1,189 supported asylum
Bolton
1,067 supported asylum
Stockport
834 supported asylum
Local reading North West

How this place reads in context

Liverpool sits 3 nationally by supported asylum count and 1 within North West. The raw volume is 2,189, but the rate of 43.01 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 585. 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.

North West as a whole currently carries 20,864 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 26.97 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Liverpool 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.