Trend
n/aLatest quarter change
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1Official data points
Barnsley
Dan Jarvis
2 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Barnsley.
276 people on asylum support in 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.
What asylum costs Barnsley
£6.2Mestimated hotel costs/year
£706Ksubsistence payments/year
£331KLA dispersal grant/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.
Barnsley: asylum numbers holding steady
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.
Exact values
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 277 |
Local numbers
Accommodation split
Dispersal accommodation264
Initial accommodation0
Subsistence only12
Contingency accommodation0
Pathway breakdown
Other routes
Homes for Ukraine164
Afghan programme162
Resettlement cumulative0
Population context
All pathways total602
Share of local population0.24%
Ethnic composition projection
Shown to 2041 rather than 2061. Past that point the model puts a residual Census category above a quarter of the population and several times its 2021 share, which is unconstrained compounding rather than a forecast, so those years are withheld.
Barnsley: White British 92.6% (2021), projected to 2041.
Ethnic composition: Barnsley
White BritishWhite Other
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 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.
Why Barnsley is changing
-3.7ppWhite British change 2011-2021. Cyan = decline. Amber = growth.
Dominant driver: national trend. Shift-share methodology following Franklin (2014).
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National benchmarks
Supported asylum count
276National distribution.
Supported asylum rate
10.92Per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
0Hotel and contingency placements.
Regional peers
Top 6 in Yorkshire and The Humber by supported asylum.