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Aberdeen City

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Kirsty Blackman
Kirsty BlackmanSNP · Aberdeen North

4 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Aberdeen City.

718 people on asylum support in Aberdeen City

Rank 34 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 31.19 per 10,000 puts Aberdeen City in the 91st percentile. That means this area carries more asylum seekers per head than 90% of the country. 13 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. 99 in contingency accommodation (hotels, not housing). Accommodation and support for 718 people at £107 per person per day is about £28.0M a year.

What asylum costs Aberdeen City

£16.2Mestimated hotel costs/year
£1.8Msubsistence payments/year
£862KLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 718 people on asylum support in Aberdeen City(0.77% of 93,293 nationally at 30 Jun 2026). Hotel costs pro-rated from £5.77M/day national spend in 2024/25 (House of Commons Library, CDP-2025-0184). Subsistence: £49.18/week per person.

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.

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Exact values
PeriodValue
Sept 20142
Dec 20141
Mar 20151
Jun 20151
Mar 20162
Jun 20162
Sept 20162
Dec 20164
Mar 20173
Jun 20171
Sept 20171
Dec 20171
Mar 20181
Jun 20181
Sept 20181
Dec 202132
Mar 202221
Jun 20227
Sept 20229
Dec 2022486
Mar 2023113
Jun 2023119
Sept 2023340
Dec 2023436
Mar 2024385
Jun 2024400
Sept 2024401
Dec 2024352
Mar 2025363
Jun 2025438
Sept 2025624
Dec 2025813

Trend

+189Latest quarter change
+811Change across series
32Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation599
Initial accommodation7
Subsistence only13
Contingency accommodation99

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
718
Homes for Ukraine
368
Afghan programme
63
Resettlement cumulative
131

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine368
Afghan programme63
Resettlement cumulative131

Population context

All pathways total1,149
Share of local population0.5%
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