Leeds is carrying a real asylum-support load
1,772 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 20.97 per 10,000 residents. 483 are in contingency accommodation.
Leeds
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 845,189 Supported asylum 1,772
Pathway breakdown
The local picture only becomes legible when supported asylum, contingency use, Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population are kept distinct.
What stands out here
3,532 people across the main local pathways
This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.42% of the local population.
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 Leeds sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.
Supported asylum count
1,772 National distribution across all local-authority rows.
Supported asylum rate
20.97 Rate per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
483 Hotel and other contingency placements.
Regional pressure context
Yorkshire and The Humber is highlighted so this place can be read inside the wider regional supported asylum map.
Editorial readout
These cards translate the data into the most defensible local claims the site can make right now.
Volume
Leeds is one of the highest-volume asylum support areas in the UK
Leeds ranks 6 nationally and 1 in Yorkshire and The Humber for supported asylum count, placing it around the 99th 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 20.97 per 10,000 residents, around the 78th 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
483 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 27.3% 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 1,226
Initial accommodation 0
Subsistence only 63
Contingency accommodation 483
Ukraine and Afghan pathways
Other current routes in this place
Homes for Ukraine arrivals 1,121
Afghan programme population 639
Afghan local authority housing 606
Afghan private rented housing 33
Historical routes
Resettlement history
Resettlement cumulative total 406
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 406
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2023 Q4 (8)
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.
Local reading Yorkshire and The Humber
How this place reads in context
Leeds sits 6 nationally by supported asylum count and 1 within Yorkshire and The Humber. The raw volume is 1,772, but the rate of 20.97 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 1,121. 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.
Yorkshire and The Humber as a whole currently carries 9,748 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 17.18 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Leeds 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.