5 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Sheffield.
Rank 19 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 17.84 per 10,000 puts Sheffield in the 77th percentile. That means this area carries more asylum seekers per head than 77% of the country. White British projected to be a minority by approximately 2048. 56 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. 184 in contingency accommodation (hotels, not housing). Accommodation and support for 1,034 people at £107 per person per day is about £40.4M a year.
Estimates based on 1,034 people on asylum support in Sheffield(1.11% 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.
1,034 people were receiving Home Office asylum support in Sheffield at 30 June 2026, the most recent quarter published. That ranks 19th of 361 UK local authorities. It counts people on support at that date, which is not the number who claimed asylum there and not the number waiting for a decision.
17.84 per 10,000 residents, which places Sheffield in the 77th percentile of UK local authorities. It carries more people on asylum support per head than 77% of the country. Rate is the fair comparison between areas, because a large city carries more people than a small district at the same pressure per head.
The Home Office does not say. 184 people in Sheffield were in contingency accommodation at 30 June 2026, and contingency accommodation is the category that includes hotels. No site in the area has been named in council papers, a parliamentary answer or published reporting, so the buildings are not identifiable.
Mears holds the Home Office asylum accommodation contract for the region Sheffield sits in, under the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts. The contract covers a whole region rather than a single council, and the Home Office does not publish a council-by-council split of which properties sit under it.
No. 56 of the 1,034 on support in Sheffield, about 5%, receive subsistence only: a cash payment with no accommodation, usually because they are living with friends or family. The rest are in Home Office accommodation, which covers dispersal housing and hotels.
Quarter-end stock series to Jun 2026. 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.
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 1,264 |
| Mar 2026 | 1,126 |
| Jun 2026 | 1,034 |
Sheffield: White British 74.5% (2021) to 46.7% (2051). White British minority by ~2048. 80% CI: 44.5, 51%.
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.
Census 2011, Census 2021, then Hamilton-Perry projections to 2051. Percentages.
Census 2011 to 2021 cohort change ratios. Shaded band = 80% confidence interval from stochastic perturbation. Not a forecast.
Muslim 10.9% (2021) → 15.0% (2051). Christian 41.0% → 9.6%.
Religious affiliation projected from Census 2021 self-identification. Trends reflect demographic change in the existing population, not religious conversion.
15% foreign-born (2021). Diversity: diverse (entropy 0.53). 91.2% main language English.
Share of the local population born outside the UK. Movement reflects both new arrivals and the UK-born children of existing residents reaching adulthood.
White British change 2011-2021. Cyan = decline. Amber = growth.
Dominant driver: national trend. Shift-share methodology following Franklin (2014).
National distribution.
Per 10,000 residents.
Hotel and contingency placements.
Top 5 in Yorkshire and The Humber by supported asylum.