Shepshed
TownTown in Charnwood, East Midlands.
Shepshed is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shepshed 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 34% of people in Shepshed live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shepshed compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shepshed safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shepshed at a rate of 82.7 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, 113 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shepshed.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (478), other crime (230) and anti-social behaviour (204).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shepshed was 69.7 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 Shepshed, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shepshed has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shepshed
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charnwood 005A | 2,688 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Charnwood 005B | 1,428 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Charnwood 005C | 2,007 | 118.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.2% |
| Charnwood 005D | 1,800 | 109.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Charnwood 006A | 1,497 | 85.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.2% |
| Charnwood 006B | 1,438 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Charnwood 006C | 1,676 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Charnwood 006D | 2,335 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.0% |
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 Shepshed1
Middle areas in Shepshed2
Towns near Shepshed6
Shepshed in brief
Shepshed is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands.
About 15,522 people lived in Shepshed in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,540 in 2025 across 255 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shepshed was £245,540 in 2025.
Shepshed had 14,873 usual residents at the census.
About 34% of people in Shepshed live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shepshed, 96.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.