Trend
+189 Latest quarter change
+811 Change across series
32 Official data points
Aberdeen City
Kirsty Blackman
4 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Aberdeen City.
679 people housed on asylum support in Aberdeen City
Rank 39 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 29.3 per 10,000 puts Aberdeen City in the 89th percentile. That means this area carries more than most. 156 in contingency accommodation (hotels, not housing). At roughly £150/person/day, that costs the taxpayer an estimated £37M per year for this area alone.
What asylum costs Aberdeen City
£13.4Mestimated hotel costs/year
£1.7Msubsistence payments/year
£815KLA dispersal grant/year
Estimates based on 679 people on asylum support in Aberdeen City (0.63% of 107,003 nationally). Hotel costs pro-rated from £5.77M/day national spend (2024/25 average, NAO). Subsistence: £49.18/week per person. Nationally, the hotel bill alone costs £62 per taxpayer per year.
Aberdeen City: asylum numbers still rising
Quarter-end stock series to Dec 2025. A rise or fall is a net change in the number of people on support at period end, not the number of new claims or distinct people moving through the caseload. Support stock also overlaps with, but is not identical to, the awaiting-decision backlog.
Local numbers
Accommodation split
Dispersal accommodation 516
Initial accommodation 1
Subsistence only 6
Contingency accommodation 156
Pathway breakdown
Other routes
Homes for Ukraine 347
Afghan programme 84
Resettlement cumulative 131
Population context
All pathways total 1,110
Share of local population 0.48%
Full demographic profile
School pressure, housing demand, service demand scoring, economic profile, language projections, and more on UK Demographics.
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National benchmarks
Supported asylum count
679 National distribution.
Supported asylum rate
29.3 Per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
156 Hotel and contingency placements.
Regional peers
Top 5 in Scotland by supported asylum.