Quarterly official-data tracker

The Asylum Accommodation Data Gap

Hotels down. Dispersal up. Fewer people in asylum hotels, more people in dispersal accommodation — one official Home Office snapshot showing which councils now carry the accommodation load.

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Source and caveats

Home Office publishes local-authority counts by accommodation type and quarter. The map points are council centroids, not hotels, houses, HMOs, streets or individual movements.

Scotland note: the Home Office hotel column is often zero for Scotland; supported accommodation may appear under dispersal because of different procurement arrangements.

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Councils with the shiftLoadingHotels down and dispersal up since the baseline quarter

Want the combined local view?

This page keeps the official evidence, trend and source receipt. Use the Regional Decline Map to compare asylum accommodation with benefits, rents, crime, health and schools.

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The Shift Since Dec 2024

National Home Office counts. Dispersal is absorbing the reduction in hotel use across dozens of councils.

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National trend

Quarterly totals from the Home Office Asy_D11 local-authority dataset. Red is hotels. Amber is dispersal accommodation.

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Accommodation mix

The workbook separates dispersal accommodation, hotels, initial accommodation and other support categories.

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Hotel-to-dispersal shift

A national hotel fall can sit beside a dispersal rise. This is a council-level pattern, not a property-level route.

Regional pressure matrix

Regional rollups show where hotel pressure remains, where dispersal carries the load, and where the shift pattern is concentrated.

Council pressure preview

Official local-authority counts plotted as a topic preview. Markers are council centroids, not hotels, houses, HMOs or streets. For cross-signal local exploration, open the asylum overlay in the Regional Decline Map.

Red: hotel pressureAmber: dispersal pressureGreen: hotel-down/dispersal-up councilsSize: total support

Local-authority tracker

Search a council, sort the columns, or switch the ranking. Click a row for a source-backed council note.

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What this data can and cannot prove

Can prove

Official council-level counts by accommodation type and quarter.

Can show

Hotel falls, dispersal rises, regional pressure and councils carrying the largest current load.

Cannot prove

It does not show which hotels' occupants moved into which houses, HMOs or streets. UK Decline does not publish or infer private addresses.

Source receipt

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How this page works

Start with the national evidence and shift leaders above, then use the table and source details below. For the full interactive view with other local signals, open the asylum overlays in the Regional Decline Map.

Update cadence: This is a quarterly Home Office dataset (Asy_D11). The page updates when the official local-authority accommodation workbook is refreshed and passes the snapshot checks.

Use as a guide: It is a council-level pressure guide, not a live operational register. Pins are approximate council centroids and should not be read as hotel, street, house or HMO locations.