Trend
+19 Latest quarter change
+338 Change across series
11 Official data points
Aberdeenshire
Seamus Logan
2 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Aberdeenshire.
237 people housed on asylum support in Aberdeenshire
Rank 126 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 8.94 per 10,000 puts Aberdeenshire in the 58th percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. 145 in contingency accommodation (hotels, not housing). At roughly £150/person/day, that costs the taxpayer an estimated £13M per year for this area alone.
What asylum costs Aberdeenshire
£4.7Mestimated hotel costs/year
£606Ksubsistence payments/year
£284KLA dispersal grant/year
Estimates based on 237 people on asylum support in Aberdeenshire (0.22% 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.
Aberdeenshire: 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 89
Initial accommodation 3
Subsistence only 0
Contingency accommodation 145
Pathway breakdown
Other routes
Homes for Ukraine 521
Afghan programme 25
Resettlement cumulative 313
Population context
All pathways total 783
Share of local population 0.3%
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
237 National distribution.
Supported asylum rate
8.94 Per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
145 Hotel and contingency placements.
Regional peers
Top 5 in Scotland by supported asylum.