02 / Places & outcomes
The Atlas
Explore places through official records: asylum support by council, school demographics and pupils at the end of primary education. Each collection keeps its own dates and definitions.
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The Atlas / Asylum & borders
Read Britain, place by place.
Explore Home Office asylum support by council. Move through time. Compare what changed.
● Official
Home Office Asy_D11. Provisional people counts at quarter end, published 27 August 2026 and checked 9 September 2026. National totals retain records without a council code.
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Counts, not rates per resident. An absent authority is unavailable, never an assumed zero.
Explore the council figures 346 councils
Latest quarter; use the council search above to filter.
| Council | Total asylum support | Hotel | Non-hotel | Subsistence only |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen City | 718 | 99 | 606 | 13 |
| Aberdeenshire | 216 | 92 | 123 | 1 |
| Adur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Amber Valley | 124 | 0 | 123 | 1 |
| Angus | 73 | 0 | 66 | 7 |
| Antrim and Newtownabbey | 199 | 138 | 61 | 0 |
| Argyll and Bute | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 72 | 0 | 72 | 0 |
| Arun | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Ashfield | 185 | 0 | 182 | 3 |
| Ashford | 38 | 0 | 35 | 3 |
| Babergh | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Sources, coverage and calculation
The map uses Home Office Asy_D11 data for 22 quarters from March 2021 to June 2026. “Non-hotel” combines all accommodation categories other than hotel and subsistence only. “Hotel share” is the reported hotel count divided by reported council support, multiplied by 100; it is a Cartulary calculation, not a population rate.
Section 98 lacks council geography before December 2022. Subsistence-only support lacks council geography from December 2023 to December 2024. Some Section 4 recipients in hotels were classified as dispersal before March 2023. The map shows a note whenever these limitations apply, and suppresses year-on-year comparisons across incompatible coverage.
ONS ultra-generalised council boundaries from December 2021, December 2024 and December 2025 match the codes reported in each period. Boundary versions change in the display from June 2023 and December 2025. Historical records are not reassigned to present-day councils; changes to a code or boundary can break a local trend. The two maps always share the same colour scale.
These are Home Office asylum-support counts, covering eligible asylum seekers, some refused applicants and their dependants; excludes unaccompanied asylum-seeking children supported by local authorities. A registered address is not a hotel address. Support counts are not the number awaiting an asylum decision.
The quarterly council figures are verified dated extracts. The separate daily small-boat figures below refresh automatically. The next scheduled quarterly source release is 26 November 2026. Read dates on each display before using it.
Home Office original data ↗ · Evidence record ↗ · Machine-readable extract ↗
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Ultra-generalised 500m boundaries, for visualisation only. ONS Open Geography Portal ↗. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
A different measure / A different clock
Small-boat arrivals.
Provisional daily operational figures.
Separate from the quarterly asylum-support population.
◐ Derived total / official daily counts — inspect provenance
Year-to-date totals sum dated Home Office observations from 1 January. The weekly time series supplies the historical record; the daily publication supplies its latest seven days. Revisions replace earlier values without adding overlapping dates. A blank or missing count is pending, never zero. These provisional operational figures may be revised; they are separate from quarterly asylum-support counts.
Daily publication updated 2 November 2026.
Last source check: 2 November 2026, 16:36 GMT. Automatically checked against the Home Office publication.
Home Office daily publication ↗ · Weekly time-series file ↗ · Current machine-readable record ↗
England / end of key stage 2
The end of primary school.
Explore the recorded ethnicity of pupils reaching the end of key stage 2, usually in Year 6. Compare published cohorts across England’s local authorities.
Observed end-of-primary cohorts. These figures describe pupils eligible for KS2 assessment in state-funded schools. They are not Year 7 admissions, a resident-population estimate or a forecast. The 2026 release is provisional.
England and local areas use the published local-authority basis. Eligibility checks can exclude approved recent arrivals in final releases. We show 2026 separately and withhold changes against earlier final years.
Find an individual primary school → The school census covers a different pupil population from this end-of-primary assessment cohort.
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2019 and 2022–2026 are published observations. There are no 2020 or 2021 KS2 assessment cohorts in this series. Changes compare different groups of pupils; they do not track the same children. A hatched area has a withheld, missing or non-comparable figure, never an assumed zero.
The local record
Compare the areas.
The table uses the selected year and ethnicity. Search narrows this table; it does not change the England total.
| Local authority | Share in 2026 | Change from 2019 | Pupils in group |
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Sources, definitions and comparison method
Which pupils are counted?
The Department for Education’s end-of-key-stage-2 eligible pupil count is used for the selected ethnic group and the matching all-pupil denominator. The population is the state-funded-school KS2 assessment cohort, usually Year 6, including state-funded special schools. Local-authority figures exclude hospital schools. It is not every child of a particular age, a count of test passes or a record of subsequent secondary-school destinations. Areas refer to school locations, not pupils’ home addresses.
What does the percentage mean?
The group count is divided by the corresponding published eligible-pupil total. Unclassified or unrecorded ethnicity remains within that total. England uses DfE’s published comparator on the local-authority basis; it is not the headline national total and is not calculated by adding local-authority rows. Revised and final local figures can exclude approved recent arrivals from overseas whose first language is not English. Local figures also include some pending, missing and prior-year result codes excluded from the headline national series. Ethnicity does not identify citizenship, birthplace, immigration status or the reason for a change.
Which comparisons are available?
Every year is a separately observed cohort. No values are interpolated for 2020 or 2021. The 2026 figures are provisional and may be revised. They have not yet incorporated the same checking and approved pupil discounting as final releases, so no change against 2026 is shown. Final-year changes are percentage points from 2019, calculated before rounding. Where a boundary change or source definition prevents a like-for-like area comparison, the change remains unavailable. Historical figures use the appropriate authority geography; a local authority can therefore appear or disappear between years.
Missing and protected figures
Published disclosure-control symbols are retained in the data. Withheld, unavailable and non-comparable figures are shown with a dash or hatching, never zero. No withheld value is reconstructed from other categories. A visible zero is a published zero. These are aggregate statistics without pupil identities.
Original sources and downloads
DfE key stage 2 attainment releases ↗ · DfE methodology ↗
Complete cohort extract and source notes (JSON) ↓ · Boundary sources and comparison rules (JSON) ↓
Statistics: Department for Education. Boundaries: ONS Open Geography Portal. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right.
