Loughborough
TownTown in Charnwood, East Midlands.
Loughborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Loughborough add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 10% of people in Loughborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Loughborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Loughborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Loughborough at a rate of 110.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 598 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Loughborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,221), other crime (1,336) and anti-social behaviour (1,085).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Loughborough was 103.9 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Loughborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Loughborough has no single figure. Of its 37 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Loughborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charnwood 001B | 2,019 | 112.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Charnwood 001E | 2,045 | 68.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 002A | 1,507 | 340.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.3% |
| Charnwood 002B | 2,226 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 002C | 1,701 | 122.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 002D | 2,071 | 212.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.8% |
| Charnwood 002E | 1,669 | 168.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.5% |
| Charnwood 002F | 1,628 | 93.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Charnwood 002G | 1,855 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Charnwood 003A | 2,552 | 489.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.0% |
| Charnwood 003B | 2,059 | 42.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Charnwood 003C | 1,088 | 62.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 003D | 2,409 | 103.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 003E | 1,839 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 003F | 1,286 | 238.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 004A | 1,428 | 27.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| Charnwood 004B | 1,304 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Charnwood 004C | 1,317 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 004D | 1,471 | 79.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Charnwood 007A | 3,089 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| Charnwood 007B | 4,248 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.0% |
| Charnwood 007C | 1,645 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Charnwood 007D | 2,292 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Charnwood 009A | 1,191 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 009B | 1,595 | 145.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Charnwood 009C | 1,577 | 182.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 009E | 1,459 | 288.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.0% |
| Charnwood 009F | 1,569 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Charnwood 009G | 1,717 | 81.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 009H | 1,578 | 148.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 010A | 1,313 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.0% |
| Charnwood 010B | 1,231 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| Charnwood 010C | 1,458 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Charnwood 010D | 1,504 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 010E | 1,491 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 010G | 1,740 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 010H | 1,471 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Dr Jeevun SandherLabourMP for Loughborough
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Loughborough1
Middle areas in Loughborough7
Towns near Loughborough6
Loughborough in brief
Loughborough is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands.
About 66,302 people lived in Loughborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £243,000 in 2025 across 657 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 110.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Loughborough was £243,000 in 2025.
Loughborough had 64,850 usual residents at the census.
About 10% of people in Loughborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Loughborough, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.