2 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Barnsley.
Rank 106 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 10.92 per 10,000 puts Barnsley in the 63rd percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. 12 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. Accommodation and support for 276 people at £107 per person per day is about £10.8M a year.
Estimates based on 276 people on asylum support in Barnsley(0.30% 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.
276 people were receiving Home Office asylum support in Barnsley at 30 June 2026, the most recent quarter published. That ranks 106th 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.
10.92 per 10,000 residents, which places Barnsley in the 63rd percentile of UK local authorities. It carries more people on asylum support per head than 63% 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.
Not on the published figures. Barnsley recorded nobody in contingency accommodation at 30 June 2026, which is the category that includes hotels. The 276 people on asylum support there are recorded in dispersal housing or on subsistence-only support.
Mears holds the Home Office asylum accommodation contract for the region Barnsley 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.
No. 12 of the 276 on support in Barnsley, about 4%, 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.
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.
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 277 |
| Mar 2026 | 269 |
| Jun 2026 | 276 |
Barnsley: White British 92.6% (2021) to 80.8% (2051). 80% CI: 80.2, 83.7%.
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.
Census 2011, Census 2021, then Hamilton-Perry projections to 2051. Percentages.
Census 2011 to 2021 cohort change ratios. Shaded band = 80% confidence interval from stochastic perturbation. Not a forecast.
Muslim 0.6% (2021) → 0.6% (2051). Christian 54.1% → 8.6%.
Religious affiliation projected from Census 2021 self-identification. Trends reflect demographic change in the existing population, not religious conversion.
6.4% foreign-born (2021). Diversity: low diversity (entropy 0.2). 95.7% main language English.
Share of the local population born outside the UK. Movement reflects both new arrivals and the UK-born children of existing residents reaching adulthood.
White British change 2011-2021. Cyan = decline. Amber = growth.
Dominant driver: national trend. Shift-share methodology following Franklin (2014).
National distribution.
Per 10,000 residents.
Hotel and contingency placements.
Top 6 in Yorkshire and The Humber by supported asylum.