West Midlands

Coventry

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 369,026 Supported asylum 1,719

Recent supported asylum path in Coventry

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

1,719
2,161 1,441 720 0 Mar 2014 Dec 2025 Peak Sept 2023
Trend readout Dec 2025

Recent path and evidence quality

Latest move

-28 since Sept 2025

-1.6% by the latest quarter-on-quarter step.

Series span

+ 1,264 across the visible series

+277.8% 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 Coventry as a pressure leader, rate outlier, contingency site, or three-pathway case without leaving the page.

Shareable place lens
Coventry ranks 2 of 30 in West Midlands; Birmingham 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
1,719
Homes for Ukraine
719
Afghan programme
553
Resettlement cumulative
799

What stands out here

Pressure profile

Coventry is carrying a real asylum-support load

1,719 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 46.58 per 10,000 residents. 147 are in contingency accommodation.

Three-pathway load

2,991 people across the main local pathways

This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.81% 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 Coventry sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.

Supported asylum count

National distribution across all local-authority rows.

1,719
low median top 10% high
Supported asylum rate

Rate per 10,000 residents.

46.58
low median top 10% high
Contingency accommodation

Hotel and other contingency placements.

147
low median top 10% high

Regional pressure context

West Midlands 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

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

Coventry ranks 9 nationally and 2 in West Midlands for supported asylum count, placing it around the 98th percentile of local authorities by volume.

Intensity

Intensity is stronger than the raw count alone suggests

The supported asylum rate here is 46.58 per 10,000 residents, around the 98th 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

147 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 8.6% of the supported asylum population and roughly the 80th 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 1,448
Initial accommodation 70
Subsistence only 54
Contingency accommodation 147
Ukraine and Afghan pathways

Other current routes in this place

Homes for Ukraine arrivals 719
Afghan programme population 553
Afghan local authority housing 462
Afghan private rented housing 91
Historical routes

Resettlement history

Resettlement cumulative total 799
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 799
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2023 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.

Birmingham
2,637 supported asylum
Coventry
Current page | 1,719 supported asylum
Sandwell
1,595 supported asylum
Wolverhampton
1,318 supported asylum
Stoke-on-Trent
1,279 supported asylum
Local reading West Midlands

How this place reads in context

Coventry sits 9 nationally by supported asylum count and 2 within West Midlands. The raw volume is 1,719, but the rate of 46.58 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 799. 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.

West Midlands as a whole currently carries 13,499 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 21.82 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Coventry 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.

Public hotel evidence currently attached to Coventry, including named sites and unnamed acknowledged use.
Site Status Evidence Last public date Entity coverage
Allesley Hotel historical named_historical 2024-06-03
unresolved
Novotel historical named_historical 2024-06-03
unresolved
Quality Hotel historical named_historical 2024-06-03
unresolved