Accommodation split
Dispersal accommodation 258
Initial accommodation 0
Subsistence only 11
Contingency accommodation 0
Barnsley
Dan Jarvis
2 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Barnsley.
269 people housed on asylum support in Barnsley
Rank 113 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 10.68 per 10,000 puts Barnsley in the 61st percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. At roughly £150/person/day, that costs the taxpayer an estimated £15M per year for this area alone.
What asylum costs Barnsley
£5.3Mestimated hotel costs/year
£688Ksubsistence payments/year
£323KLA dispersal grant/year
Estimates based on 269 people on asylum support in Barnsley (0.25% 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.
Local numbers
Pathway breakdown
Other routes
Homes for Ukraine 159
Afghan programme 160
Resettlement cumulative 27
Population context
All pathways total 588
Share of local population 0.23%
Ethnic composition projection
Barnsley: WBI 92.6% (2021) → 66.2% (2051). 80% CI: 69.9–74.3%.
Ethnic composition: Barnsley
White British White Other 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: Barnsley
Census 2011, Census 2021, then Hamilton-Perry projections to 2051. Percentages.
White British White Other Asian Black Mixed Other
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 Barnsley ranges from 68.4% to 82.5% by 2051. That is a 14.2pp spread.
Fertility
Low ~108k/yr
Principal ~315k/yr
High ~476k/yr
Constant Rates stay at current levels
Half convergence Move halfway to national avg
Full convergence Converge to national avg
Migration
Central scenario: WBI 74.0% by 2051
Why Barnsley is changing
-3.7ppWhite British change 2011–2021. Cyan = decline. Amber = growth.
Dominant driver: national trend. Shift-share methodology following Franklin (2014).
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
269 National distribution.
Supported asylum rate
10.68 Per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
0 Hotel and contingency placements.
Regional peers
Top 6 in Yorkshire and The Humber by supported asylum.