# Loughborough

Town in Charnwood, East Midlands.

Loughborough is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands. Median sale price £243,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 110.6 per 1,000 people. About 66,302 people.

Town. Code E63002317. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Charnwood](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £243,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Loughborough was £243,000 in 2025. 435th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughborough#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 64,850** (2021). Loughborough had 64,850 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 166th most populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughborough#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 10%** (2022). About 10% of people in Loughborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughborough#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 98.3%** (January 2026). In Loughborough, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughborough#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=E63002317) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year#place=E63002317) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 657 homes were sold in Loughborough in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime#place=E63002317) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Loughborough.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=E63002317) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Loughborough had 64,850 usual residents at the census.

## How Loughborough compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Loughborough | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £243,000 | 49th most expensive | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2025 |
| Population | 64,850 | 8th most populated | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 10% | 25th fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 98.3% | joint 15th highest | 105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Loughborough

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Charnwood 001B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025692) | 2,019 | 112.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| [Charnwood 001E](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01033386) | 2,045 | 68.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 002A](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025699) | 1,507 | 340.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.3% |
| [Charnwood 002B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025700) | 2,226 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| [Charnwood 002C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025701) | 1,701 | 122.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 002D](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025703) | 2,071 | 212.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.8% |
| [Charnwood 002E](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025704) | 1,669 | 168.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.5% |
| [Charnwood 002F](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025705) | 1,628 | 93.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| [Charnwood 002G](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025706) | 1,855 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| [Charnwood 003A](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025720) | 2,552 | 489.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.0% |
| [Charnwood 003B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025721) | 2,059 | 42.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| [Charnwood 003C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025722) | 1,088 | 62.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 003D](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025723) | 2,409 | 103.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 003E](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025724) | 1,839 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 003F](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025725) | 1,286 | 238.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 004A](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025695) | 1,428 | 27.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| [Charnwood 004B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025696) | 1,304 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| [Charnwood 004C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025697) | 1,317 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 004D](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025698) | 1,471 | 79.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| [Charnwood 007A](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025689) | 3,089 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| [Charnwood 007B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025690) | 4,248 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.0% |
| [Charnwood 007C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025707) | 1,645 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| [Charnwood 007D](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025709) | 2,292 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| [Charnwood 009A](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025702) | 1,191 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 009B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025715) | 1,595 | 145.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| [Charnwood 009C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025716) | 1,577 | 182.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 009E](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025718) | 1,459 | 288.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.0% |
| [Charnwood 009F](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025719) | 1,569 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| [Charnwood 009G](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01034002) | 1,717 | 81.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 009H](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01034003) | 1,578 | 148.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| [Charnwood 010A](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025708) | 1,313 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.0% |
| [Charnwood 010B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025710) | 1,231 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| [Charnwood 010C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025711) | 1,458 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| [Charnwood 010D](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025712) | 1,504 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| [Charnwood 010E](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025713) | 1,491 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 010G](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01034004) | 1,740 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Charnwood 010H](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01034005) | 1,471 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |

## Your MP

- [Loughborough](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/loughborough): Dr Jeevun Sandher (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Charnwood](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood)

## Postcode districts covering Loughborough

[LE11](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/le11)

## Middle areas in Loughborough

[Loughborough - Outwoods](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/loughborough-outwoods), [Loughborough - Shelthorpe & Woodthorpe](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/loughborough-shelthorpe-and-woodthorpe), [Loughborough - University](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/loughborough-university), [Loughborough Dishley & Hathern](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/loughborough-dishley-and-hathern), [Loughborough Garendon](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/loughborough-garendon), [Loughborough Lemyngton & Hastings](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/loughborough-lemyngton-and-hastings), [Loughborough Storer & Queen's Park](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/loughborough-storer-and-queens-park)

## Towns near Loughborough

[Shepshed](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shepshed), [Mountsorrel](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mountsorrel), [East Leake](https://openindex.co.uk/town/east-leake), [Coalville](https://openindex.co.uk/town/coalville), [Sileby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sileby), [Whitwick](https://openindex.co.uk/town/whitwick)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63002317
- Constituency: [Loughborough †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/loughborough)
- Council: [Charnwood †](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood)
- Region: [East Midlands](https://openindex.co.uk/east-midlands)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 15.96 km²
- People, mid-2024: 66,302*
- Neighbourhoods: 37
- Output areas: 192

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Shepshed](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shepshed), [Mountsorrel](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mountsorrel), [East Leake](https://openindex.co.uk/town/east-leake), [Coalville](https://openindex.co.uk/town/coalville), [Sileby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sileby), [Whitwick](https://openindex.co.uk/town/whitwick)

## Latest updates for Loughborough

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63002317

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughborough, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughborough#f-house-sales-median-price.

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