Loughborough

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 19° / 11° · 71% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:29

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Leicester University, United Kingdom

428 reported · July 2026▼ 1% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences125
• Shoplifting73
• Anti-social behaviour70
• Public order40

14 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Loughborough Central · Leicestershire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

194 reported road collisions (2024)

61 killed or seriously injured · 236 casualties · 10.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

483 food businesses within 2 miles

• 400 rated 4–5 ★ (336 top)
• 17 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Loughborough Central (0.4 km)
• 53 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£276,865 average▲ 3.8% YoY

Across Charnwood · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£958 average monthly rent▲ 4% YoY

• 1 bed £677
• 2 bed £845
• 3 bed £1,027

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

7.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.5 times median annual pay (7.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · Asda (5.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.7p · Asda (11.9 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

23 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Beehive Car Park (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms7
• Sports pitches41
• Playgrounds22

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

183,971 residents in Charnwood · 659/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 244 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,406 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (28% of 79,560)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

80 schools · 27,415 pupils

49 primary · 11 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 20 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

64inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Charnwood

633 CQC-registered services

• Care homes163
• GP practices107
• Dentists135
• Homecare agencies172
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Leicestershire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 61 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

214 applications decided

87.9% granted · 188 granted, 26 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Dr Jeevun Sandher

Labour

Loughborough

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 20
• Con 22
• Grn 7
• Oth 2

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools16
• GPs & clinics6
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets13
• Parks & greens14
• Restaurants & cafés128

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

952 jobs advertised · £36,508 avg

e.g. Electrician, Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, Swim Teacher - Leisure Solutions Community Trust, Loughborough

Source: Adzuna

£761 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,535 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 82,396 certificates

9.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

86% low-carbon electricity

Wind 54% · Biomass 22% · Gas 13% · Solar 7%

78 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.9 yrs women · 80.7 yrs men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Loughborough:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership352 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills328 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office288 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s272 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership222 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Loughborough Grammar School · 0.1 km

  Loughborough Grammar School is a private boys’ day and boarding school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the English public school tradition. It was founded in 1495 with money left in the will of Thomas Burton, and…

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  Loughborough High School · 0.3 km

  Loughborough High School is an independent school for girls in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is one of five independent schools known collectively as the Loughborough Schools Foundation (LSF): Loughborough…

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  Loughborough Central railway station · 0.3 km

  Loughborough Central Station is a railway station on the Great Central Railway and the Great Central Railway serving Loughborough.

• Loughborough (constituency) · 0.4 km

  Loughborough is a constituency in Leicestershire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Jeevun Sandher of the Labour Party. The constituency is considered a bellwether, as it has reflec…

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  Borough of Charnwood · 0.4 km

  Charnwood is a local government district with borough status in the north of Leicestershire, England. It is named after Charnwood Forest, much of which lies within the borough. Towns in the borough include Loughboroug…

• Park Road, Loughborough · 0.5 km

  Park Road is a cricket ground in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Established along with the formation of Loughborough Town Cricket Club in 1896, the ground first played host to first-class cricket in 1913, when Leiceste…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)