East Midlands

Amber Valley

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office · Corrections log
Linsey Farnsworth
Linsey FarnsworthLabour · Amber Valley
124 people on asylum support in Amber Valley

Rank 168 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 9.4 per 10,000 puts Amber Valley in the 60th percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. 1 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. Accommodation and support for 124 people at £107 per person per day is about £4.8M a year.

What asylum costs Amber Valley

£2.8Mestimated hotel costs/year
£317Ksubsistence payments/year
£149KLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 124 people on asylum support in Amber Valley(0.13% 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.

How many asylum seekers are in Amber Valley?

124 people were receiving Home Office asylum support in Amber Valley at 30 June 2026, the most recent quarter published. That ranks 168th of 361 UK local authorities. It counts people on support at that date, which is not the number who claimed asylum there and not the number waiting for a decision.

How many asylum seekers per 10,000 people are in Amber Valley?

9.4 per 10,000 residents, which places Amber Valley in the 60th percentile of UK local authorities. It carries more people on asylum support per head than 60% of the country. Rate is the fair comparison between areas, because a large city carries more people than a small district at the same pressure per head.

Are there asylum hotels in Amber Valley?

Not on the published figures. Amber Valley recorded nobody in contingency accommodation at 30 June 2026, which is the category that includes hotels. The 124 people on asylum support there are recorded in dispersal housing or on subsistence-only support.

Who houses asylum seekers in Amber Valley?

Serco holds the Home Office asylum accommodation contract for the region Amber Valley sits in, under the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts. The contract covers a whole region rather than a single council, and the Home Office does not publish a council-by-council split of which properties sit under it.

Are all of them in Home Office accommodation in Amber Valley?

No. 1 of the 124 on support in Amber Valley, about 1%, receive subsistence only: a cash payment with no accommodation, usually because they are living with friends or family. The rest are in Home Office accommodation, which covers dispersal housing and hotels.

Amber Valley: asylum numbers still rising

Quarter-end stock series to Jun 2026. 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
Mar 20141
Jun 20141
Sept 20141
Dec 20141
Mar 20151
Sept 20171
Dec 20171
Mar 20181
Jun 20181
Sept 20181
Dec 20181
Mar 20191
Jun 20191
Sept 20191
Dec 20191
Sept 20222
Dec 20222
Mar 20232
Jun 20232
Sept 20233
Jun 20246
Sept 20248
Dec 20248
Mar 202522
Jun 202538
Sept 202551
Dec 202583
Mar 2026109
Jun 2026124

Trend

+15Latest quarter change
+123Change across series
29Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation123
Initial accommodation0
Subsistence only1
Contingency accommodation0

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
124
Homes for Ukraine
330
Afghan programme
3
Resettlement cumulative
6

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine330
Afghan programme3
Resettlement cumulative6

Population context

All pathways total457
Share of local population0.35%

Ethnic composition projection

Amber Valley: White British 95.0% (2021) to 89.4% (2051). 80% CI: 89.3, 91.3%.

Ethnic composition: Amber Valley

0255075100% of populationCensus 2021IllustrativeWhite British 86% in 2061White Other 4% in 2061Mixed 7% in 206120112021203120412051
White BritishWhite OtherMixed 80% CI

Each line shows one ethnic group's share of the local population. The shaded band is the 80% confidence range. Values after 2051 are illustrative only.

Ethnic composition: Amber Valley

Census 2011, Census 2021, then Hamilton-Perry projections to 2051. Percentages.

2011
96%
2021
95%
2031proj
94%
2041proj
92%
2051proj
89%
2061proj
86%
White BritishWhite OtherAsianBlackMixedOther
Model: Hamilton-Perry single-year CCRs, 1,000 Monte Carlo simulations, SNPP-constrained

Census 2011 to 2021 cohort change ratios. Shaded band = 80% confidence interval from stochastic perturbation. Not a forecast.

Scenario explorer

Under different assumptions, White British share in Amber Valley ranges from58.0% to 81.2%by 2051. That is a 23.2pp spread.

Fertility
Low~108k/yr
Principal~315k/yr
High~476k/yr
ConstantRates stay at current levels
Half convergenceMove halfway to national avg
Full convergenceConverge to national avg
Migration
Central scenario: WBI 66.3% by 2051

Religion projection

Muslim 0.3% (2021) → 0.7% (2051). Christian 48.2% → 9.2%.

Religion: Amber Valley

427497294%Census 2021Christian 9% in 2051No religion 89% in 20512021203120412051
ChristianNo religion

Religious affiliation projected from Census 2021 self-identification. Trends reflect demographic change in the existing population, not religious conversion.

Nativity

3.7% foreign-born (2021). Diversity: low diversity (entropy 0.15). 98.5% main language English.

UK-born vs foreign-born: Amber Valley

0255075100%Census 2021UK-born 76% in 2051Foreign-born 24% in 20512021203120412051
UK-bornForeign-born

Share of the local population born outside the UK. Movement reflects both new arrivals and the UK-born children of existing residents reaching adulthood.

low immigration: Limited ethnic diversity. Projections primarily driven by national trends.

Census 2021 mobility: 7.4% moved within UK, 0.3% arrived from abroad
black14.5% internal, 4.7% international
white other10.8% internal, 2.3% international
mixed12% internal, 0.8% international
asian11% internal, 1.4% international
other6.6% internal, 3.3% international
white british7.3% internal, 0.2% international

Why Amber Valley is changing

-1.4pp
National trend
-6.2pp
Age structure
-1.3pp
Local migration
+6pp

White British change 2011-2021. Cyan = decline. Amber = growth.

Dominant driver: national trend. Shift-share methodology following Franklin (2014).