Kenneth Fox
One person in every 100 people in Donegal is an asylum seeker.
Dublin has the most asylum seekers per county, and Leitrim has the least. That is according to new figures released by the Department of Integration.
Leitrim has just 89 international protection applicants out of a total of 26,743 for the entire country.
The figures released give an idea of how asylum seekers are distributed across the 26 counties.
Donegal has the highest concentration, with 1004 asylum seekers per head of population.
That means that 1 in every 100 people living in Donegal is seeking asylum.
Mayo, Monaghan and Wicklow are the next highest concentrations of asylum seekers being accommodated.
Dublin has the most asylum seekers by head count, with over 9,400, or 36 per cent of all international protection applicants, while Leitrim has the lowest.
A total of 32 per cent are single males, while 28 per cent are children, and 11 percent are single females. That equates to 110 single males, 39 single females, 54 couples, 95 children and 36 lone parents.
The majority of asylum seekers have come from the likes of Nigeria, Georgia and Algeria. Somalia, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan also had a high number of asylum seekers.
On a broader scale, there has been an upward trend of migrants entering the country with the figures for 2017 showing just 5,096 international protection applicants in accomodation compared to 26,473 in 2024.
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