Trend
+58 Latest quarter change
-493 Change across series
32 Official data points
Glasgow City
John Grady
6 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Glasgow City.
3,870 people housed on asylum support in Glasgow City
Rank 1 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 59.51 per 10,000 puts Glasgow City in the 100th percentile. That means this area carries more asylum seekers per head than 90% of the country. At roughly £150/person/day, that costs the taxpayer an estimated £212M per year for this area alone.
What asylum costs Glasgow City
£76.2Mestimated hotel costs/year
£9.9Msubsistence payments/year
£4.6MLA dispersal grant/year
Estimates based on 3,870 people on asylum support in Glasgow City (3.62% 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.
Glasgow City: 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 3,489
Initial accommodation 235
Subsistence only 146
Contingency accommodation 0
Pathway breakdown
Other routes
Homes for Ukraine 600
Afghan programme 199
Resettlement cumulative 109
Population context
All pathways total 4,669
Share of local population 0.72%
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
3,870 National distribution.
Supported asylum rate
59.51 Per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
0 Hotel and contingency placements.
Regional peers
Top 5 in Scotland by supported asylum.