Trend
+15 Latest quarter change
+245 Change across series
15 Official data points
Derry City and Strabane
Mr Gregory Campbell
228 people housed on asylum support in Derry City and Strabane
Rank 131 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 14.96 per 10,000 puts Derry City and Strabane in the 70th percentile. That means this area carries more than most. At roughly £150/person/day, that costs the taxpayer an estimated £12M per year for this area alone.
What asylum costs Derry City and Strabane
£4.5Mestimated hotel costs/year
£583Ksubsistence payments/year
£274KLA dispersal grant/year
Estimates based on 228 people on asylum support in Derry City and Strabane (0.21% 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.
Derry City and Strabane: asylum numbers still rising
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.
Local numbers
Accommodation split
Dispersal accommodation 224
Initial accommodation 3
Subsistence only 1
Contingency accommodation 0
Pathway breakdown
Other routes
Homes for Ukraine 153
Afghan programme 45
Resettlement cumulative 94
Population context
All pathways total 426
Share of local population 0.28%
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
228 National distribution.
Supported asylum rate
14.96 Per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
0 Hotel and contingency placements.
Regional peers
Top 5 in Northern Ireland by supported asylum.