Scotland

Aberdeenshire

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.

Scotland Population 265,080 Supported asylum 377

Recent supported asylum path in Aberdeenshire

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

377
377 251 126 0 Jun 2023 Dec 2025 Peak Dec 2025
Trend readout Dec 2025

Recent path and evidence quality

Latest move

+19 since Sept 2025

+5.3% by the latest quarter-on-quarter step.

Series span

+ 338 across the visible series

+866.7% from the first visible point to Dec 2025.

Series quality

11 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 Aberdeenshire as a pressure leader, rate outlier, contingency site, or three-pathway case without leaving the page.

Shareable place lens
Aberdeenshire ranks 3 of 32 in Scotland; Glasgow City 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
377
Homes for Ukraine
488
Afghan programme
25
Resettlement cumulative
300

What stands out here

Pressure profile

Aberdeenshire is carrying a real asylum-support load

377 people are on asylum support here, with a rate of 14.22 per 10,000 residents. 327 are in contingency accommodation.

Three-pathway load

890 people across the main local pathways

This combines supported asylum, Homes for Ukraine arrivals, and Afghan programme population, representing 0.34% 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 Aberdeenshire sits in the national distribution for the most important place-level pressure measures.

Supported asylum count

National distribution across all local-authority rows.

377
low median top 10% high
Supported asylum rate

Rate per 10,000 residents.

14.22
low median top 10% high
Contingency accommodation

Hotel and other contingency placements.

327
low median top 10% high

Regional pressure context

Scotland 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

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

Aberdeenshire ranks 95 nationally and 3 in Scotland for supported asylum count, placing it around the 74th 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 14.22 per 10,000 residents, around the 67th 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

327 people are in contingency accommodation here, around 86.7% of the supported asylum population and roughly the 91th 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 47
Initial accommodation 3
Subsistence only 0
Contingency accommodation 327
Ukraine and Afghan pathways

Other current routes in this place

Homes for Ukraine arrivals 488
Afghan programme population 25
Afghan local authority housing 16
Afghan private rented housing 9
Historical routes

Resettlement history

Resettlement cumulative total 300
UK resettlement and family reunion cumulative 300
Community sponsorship cumulative 0
Latest resettlement quarter 2025 Q4 (3)

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.

Glasgow City
3,835 supported asylum
Aberdeen City
813 supported asylum
Aberdeenshire
Current page | 377 supported asylum
City of Edinburgh
232 supported asylum
Perth and Kinross
201 supported asylum
Local reading Scotland

How this place reads in context

Aberdeenshire sits 95 nationally by supported asylum count and 3 within Scotland. The raw volume is 377, but the rate of 14.22 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 488. 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.

Scotland as a whole currently carries 6,688 people on supported asylum, with a weighted regional rate of 12.06 per 10,000 residents. This page puts Aberdeenshire 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.