Supported asylum Northern Ireland
Headline asylum-support volume for this local authority.
Belfast currently leads Northern Ireland on supported asylum.
Belfast
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.
Northern Ireland Population 352,390 Supported asylum 1,749
Interactive place drill-down
Switch metric and comparison frame to read Belfast as a pressure leader, rate outlier, contingency site, or three-pathway case without leaving the page.
Belfast currently leads Northern Ireland on supported asylum.
Supported asylum United Kingdom
Headline asylum-support volume for this local authority.
Belfast is in the national top ten on supported asylum, ranking 7 of 361.
Supported asylum rate Northern Ireland
Rate per 10,000 residents, which shows local intensity more cleanly than raw volume alone.
Belfast currently leads Northern Ireland on supported asylum rate.
Supported asylum rate United Kingdom
Rate per 10,000 residents, which shows local intensity more cleanly than raw volume alone.
Belfast is in the national top ten on supported asylum rate, ranking 4 of 361.
Contingency accommodation Northern Ireland
Hotel and contingency placements recorded in the latest local-authority snapshot.
Belfast ranks 5 of 11 in Northern Ireland; Causeway Coast and Glens currently leads this regional measure.
Contingency accommodation United Kingdom
Hotel and contingency placements recorded in the latest local-authority snapshot.
Belfast ranks 140 of 361 nationally on contingency accommodation.
Three-pathway total Northern Ireland
Combined supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population.
Belfast currently leads Northern Ireland on three-pathway total.
Three-pathway total United Kingdom
Combined supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population.
Belfast ranks 21 of 361 nationally on three-pathway total.
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
Belfast is carrying a real asylum-support load
1,749 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 49.63 per 10,000 residents. No contingency accommodation is recorded for this area.
2,113 people across the main local pathways
This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.6% 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 Belfast sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.
Supported asylum count
1,749 National distribution across all local-authority rows.
Supported asylum rate
49.63 Rate per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
0 Hotel and other contingency placements.
Regional pressure context
Northern Ireland 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
Belfast is one of the highest-volume asylum support areas in the UK
Belfast ranks 7 nationally and 1 in Northern Ireland 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 49.63 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
The local picture leans more toward dispersal than contingency pressure
No contingency accommodation is recorded for this area in the latest local-authority snapshot, which makes it structurally different from hotel-heavy pressure points.
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 1,682
Initial accommodation 59
Subsistence only 8
Contingency accommodation 0
Ukraine and Afghan pathways
Other current routes in this place
Homes for Ukraine arrivals 302
Afghan programme population 62
Afghan local authority housing 62
Afghan private rented housing 0
Historical routes
Resettlement history
Resettlement cumulative total 419
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 419
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2022 Q2 (1)
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 Northern Ireland
How this place reads in context
Belfast sits 7 nationally by supported asylum count and 1 within Northern Ireland. The raw volume is 1,749, but the rate of 49.63 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 419. 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.
Northern Ireland as a whole currently carries 2,608 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 13.53 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Belfast 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.