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North Northamptonshire

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Lee Barron
Lee BarronLabour · Corby and East Northamptonshire

2 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping North Northamptonshire.

641 people on asylum support in North Northamptonshire

Rank 45 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 16.89 per 10,000 puts North Northamptonshire in the 76th percentile. That means this area carries more than most. 2 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. Accommodation and support for 641 people at £107 per person per day is about £25.0M a year.

What asylum costs North Northamptonshire

£14.5Mestimated hotel costs/year
£1.6Msubsistence payments/year
£769KLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 641 people on asylum support in North Northamptonshire(0.69% 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.

North Northamptonshire: 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.

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5923951970Mar 2018Dec 2025Peak Dec 2025Rwanda schemeAlbania dealBibby StockholmRwanda scrapped
Exact values
PeriodValue
Mar 201814
Jun 20187
Sept 20186
Dec 20186
Mar 20198
Jun 201913
Sept 201918
Dec 201918
Mar 202012
Jun 202017
Sept 202021
Dec 202024
Mar 202124
Jun 202122
Sept 202122
Dec 202125
Mar 202225
Jun 202225
Sept 202224
Dec 202263
Mar 202389
Jun 2023115
Sept 202371
Dec 202340
Mar 202481
Jun 2024138
Sept 2024170
Dec 2024244
Mar 2025391
Jun 2025467
Sept 2025537
Dec 2025592

Trend

+55Latest quarter change
+578Change across series
32Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation639
Initial accommodation0
Subsistence only2
Contingency accommodation0

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
641
Homes for Ukraine
1,052
Afghan programme
94
Resettlement cumulative
0

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine1,052
Afghan programme94
Resettlement cumulative0

Population context

All pathways total1,787
Share of local population0.47%

Ethnic composition projection

North Northamptonshire: White British 80.5% (2021) to 56.3% (2051).

Ethnic composition: North Northamptonshire

021436485% of populationCensus 2021White British 56% in 2051White Other 16% in 2051Asian 11% in 2051Black 7% in 2051Mixed 5% in 2051Other 4% in 20512021203120412051
White BritishWhite OtherAsianBlackMixedOther

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: North Northamptonshire

Census 2011, Census 2021, then Hamilton-Perry projections to 2051. Percentages.

2021
80%
10%
2021
80%
10%
2026proj
76%
11%
2031proj
72%
13%
2036proj
68%
14%
2041proj
64%
15%
9%
2046proj
60%
16%
10%
2051proj
56%
16%
11%
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.

Scenario explorer

Under different assumptions, White British share in North Northamptonshire ranges from60.3% to 68.6%by 2051. That is a 8.3pp spread.

Fertility
Low~108k/yr
Principal~315k/yr
High~476k/yr
ConstantRates stay at current levels
Half convergenceMove halfway to national avg
Full convergenceConverge to national avg
Migration
Central scenario: WBI 63.7% by 2051
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