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Barnet

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 405,050 Supported asylum 1,393

Recent supported asylum path in Barnet

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

1,393
1,970 1,313 657 0 Mar 2014 Dec 2025 Peak Jun 2023
Trend readout Dec 2025

Recent path and evidence quality

Latest move

-195 since Sept 2025

-12.3% by the latest quarter-on-quarter step.

Series span

+ 1,295 across the visible series

+1321.4% 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 Barnet as a pressure leader, rate outlier, contingency site, or three-pathway case without leaving the page.

Shareable place lens
Barnet ranks 4 of 33 in London; Hillingdon 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
1,393
Homes for Ukraine
1,912
Afghan programme
201
Resettlement cumulative
59

What stands out here

Pressure profile

Barnet is carrying a real asylum-support load

1,393 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 34.39 per 10,000 residents. 1,251 are in contingency accommodation.

Three-pathway load

3,506 people across the main local pathways

This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.87% 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 Barnet sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.

Supported asylum count

National distribution across all local-authority rows.

1,393
low median top 10% high
Supported asylum rate

Rate per 10,000 residents.

34.39
low median top 10% high
Contingency accommodation

Hotel and other contingency placements.

1,251
low median top 10% high

Regional pressure context

London 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

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

Barnet ranks 15 nationally and 4 in London for supported asylum count, placing it around the 96th percentile of local authorities by volume.

Intensity

Intensity is stronger than the raw count alone suggests

The supported asylum rate here is 34.39 per 10,000 residents, around the 90th 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

1,251 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 89.8% of the supported asylum population and roughly the 99th 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 36
Initial accommodation 0
Subsistence only 106
Contingency accommodation 1,251
Ukraine and Afghan pathways

Other current routes in this place

Homes for Ukraine arrivals 1,912
Afghan programme population 201
Afghan local authority housing 81
Afghan private rented housing 120
Historical routes

Resettlement history

Resettlement cumulative total 59
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 59
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2025 Q3 (2)

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.

Hillingdon
2,133 supported asylum
Hounslow
1,720 supported asylum
Croydon
1,483 supported asylum
Barnet
Current page | 1,393 supported asylum
Ealing
1,249 supported asylum
Local reading London

How this place reads in context

Barnet sits 15 nationally by supported asylum count and 4 within London. The raw volume is 1,393, but the rate of 34.39 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 1,912. 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.

London as a whole currently carries 16,378 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 18.02 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Barnet 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.