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Yorkshire and The Humber

North Yorkshire

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Kirsty Blackman
Kirsty BlackmanSNP · Aberdeen North

81 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping North Yorkshire.

325 people on asylum support in North Yorkshire

Rank 95 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 5.09 per 10,000 puts North Yorkshire in the 44th percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. 8 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. 62 in contingency accommodation (hotels, not housing). Accommodation and support for 325 people at £107 per person per day is about £12.7M a year.

What asylum costs North Yorkshire

£7.3Mestimated hotel costs/year
£831Ksubsistence payments/year
£390KLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 325 people on asylum support in North Yorkshire(0.35% 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. 1 known hotel sites in this area.

North Yorkshire: 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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4733151580Jun 2023Dec 2025Peak Dec 2025Bibby StockholmRwanda scrapped
Exact values
PeriodValue
Jun 2023221
Sept 2023313
Dec 2023193
Mar 2024167
Jun 2024266
Sept 2024364
Dec 2024390
Mar 2025288
Jun 2025398
Sept 2025449
Dec 2025473

Trend

+24Latest quarter change
+252Change across series
11Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation255
Initial accommodation0
Subsistence only8
Contingency accommodation62

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
325
Homes for Ukraine
1,712
Afghan programme
453
Resettlement cumulative
26

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine1,712
Afghan programme453
Resettlement cumulative26

Population context

All pathways total2,490
Share of local population0.39%

Ethnic composition projection

North Yorkshire: White British 93.3% (2021) to 76.0% (2051).

Ethnic composition: North Yorkshire

025497498% of populationCensus 2021White British 76% in 2051White Other 8% in 2051Asian 7% in 2051Mixed 3% in 20512021203120412051
White BritishWhite OtherAsianMixed

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 Yorkshire

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

2021
93%
2021
93%
2026proj
91%
2031proj
88%
2036proj
86%
2041proj
82%
2046proj
79%
2051proj
76%
8%
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 Yorkshire ranges from78.5% to 86.2%by 2051. That is a 7.7pp 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 81.8% by 2051
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