How many illegal immigrants staying in British hotels are men?

1. What the public data actually records: totals, not gender

Home Office and widely cited public reporting provide headline totals of people in hotel accommodation—figures such as 36,273 people in hotels at the end of September 2025 and around 38,000 at the end of 2024—but these sources present aggregate numbers rather than a male/female split ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Parliamentary and research-briefing material likewise document the scale and trends—47,500 in hotels at the end of March 2023 in one briefing—but none of the supplied briefings or news stories include a comprehensive gender breakdown for those housed in hotels ^[6].

2. Why the sources do not answer the "how many men" question

The official and academic coverage compiled here focuses on the scale and cost of contingency accommodation, regional dispersal and policy responses; the Migration Observatory, Home Office summaries and media accounts describe geography, costs and policy commitments without disaggregating by gender in the hotel category ^{[5] [3] [7]}. Even detailed parliamentary briefings and Home Office categories—such as “contingency accommodation – hotel”—report bedspaces and numbers but do not, in the passages provided, include demographic splits that would allow calculating the number of men ^{[6] [4]}.

3. Patches of reporting that mention single males — not a nationwide count

Some local reports and council disputes do highlight that particular hotels or moves have concentrated single male asylum seekers—for example, Merseyside councillors asked the Home Office to review housing single male asylum seekers at a Holiday Inn Express in Hoylake, and Epping Forest’s injunction concerned more than 100 applicants at a specific Essex hotel ^[8]. These incidents show the practice of assigning single men to particular sites, but they are case-level and cannot be extrapolated to provide a national male total from the supplied sources ^[8].

4. Terminology and political framing matter to any answer

Different outlets frame the population differently: mainstream reporting and research use “asylum seekers” and “people seeking asylum” and track official Home Office categories ^{[3] [5]}, while partisan sites may use terms like “illegals” and selectively cite totals for political effect ^[9]. Any effort to answer “how many illegal immigrants staying in British hotels are men” must therefore first resolve definitional questions—who counts as “illegal,” whether the Home Office category includes both asylum claimants and those with other immigration statuses—and request demographic breakdowns from official data rather than rely on politically charged shorthand ^{[4] [2]}.

5. What would be needed to answer the question precisely

To produce a precise figure for the number of men in hotel accommodation, one would need a gender-disaggregated dataset from the Home Office or an equivalent official source for the same period as the headline totals cited here; none of the provided sources include that demographic split ^{[1] [6] [3]}. Absent that, the reporting allows only accurately cited totals for people in hotels and a record of localized placements of single males, but not a defensible nationwide count of men specifically ^{[2] [8]}.

6. Bottom line

The supplied reporting documents that tens of thousands of people have been housed in hotels at various points (figures cited include c.36,273 at end-September 2025, c.38,000 at end-2024 and c.47,500 at end-March 2023), but none of the cited sources provide a sex- or gender-disaggregated total that would answer how many of those in hotels are men ^{[1] [3] [6]}. To answer the question directly and authoritatively requires a gender breakdown from the Home Office or a data release that is not present in these sources ^[4].