Hounslow is carrying a real asylum-support load
1,720 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 57.44 per 10,000 residents. 1,466 are in contingency accommodation.
Hounslow
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 299,424 Supported asylum 1,720
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
3,197 people across the main local pathways
This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 1.07% 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 Hounslow sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.
Supported asylum count
1,720 National distribution across all local-authority rows.
Supported asylum rate
57.44 Rate per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
1,466 Hotel and other contingency placements.
Regional pressure context
London 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
Hounslow is one of the highest-volume asylum support areas in the UK
Hounslow ranks 8 nationally and 2 in London 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 57.44 per 10,000 residents, around the 99th 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
1,466 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 85.2% of the supported asylum population and roughly the 100th 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 190
Initial accommodation 0
Subsistence only 64
Contingency accommodation 1,466
Ukraine and Afghan pathways
Other current routes in this place
Homes for Ukraine arrivals 1,247
Afghan programme population 230
Afghan local authority housing 174
Afghan private rented housing 56
Historical routes
Resettlement history
Resettlement cumulative total 37
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 37
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2022 Q2 (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.
Local reading London
How this place reads in context
Hounslow sits 8 nationally by supported asylum count and 2 within London. The raw volume is 1,720, but the rate of 57.44 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 1,247. 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 Hounslow 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.