Asylum seekers by county
Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office · Corrections logCounties here are ceremonial counties, the ones people mean in ordinary speech, so each includes any unitary authority sitting inside its boundary. Every figure is the sum of the published local authority figures, and the 47 counties together account for all 80,947 people on asylum support in England.
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Greater London
12,14013.32West Midlands
7,80025.83Greater Manchester
7,540254Lancashire
4,73429.35West Yorkshire
4,30617.86Merseyside
3,94226.77Tyne and Wear
3,408298Essex
2,56713.29Nottinghamshire
2,48120.910South Yorkshire
2,23615.611County Durham
2,04921.412Cheshire
2,01317.613Leicestershire
1,76315.514Staffordshire
1,6631415Derbyshire
1,63314.816North Yorkshire
1,60514.117Warwickshire
1,39521.718Berkshire
1,38913.919Hampshire
1,2476.520Northamptonshire
1,11913.621Kent
1,0605.422Lincolnshire
1,0609.423Hertfordshire
8356.724East Sussex
7528.925Devon
7455.926West Sussex
740827Cumbria
73314.328Wiltshire
7079.229Bristol
68913.930Northumberland
67820.331Shropshire
67312.632Buckinghamshire
623733Gloucestershire
6076.234Bedfordshire
5897.835East Riding of Yorkshire
5779.136Cambridgeshire
5095.437Surrey
4313.438Oxfordshire
4045.239Norfolk
3844.140Dorset
3394.341Somerset
2852.842Suffolk
2493.243Worcestershire
2003.244Herefordshire
251.345Cornwall
150.346Rutland
81.947Isle of Wight
00Count is people on asylum support at 30 June 2026. Rate is per 10,000 residents.