Shepshed

6°CClear

• Today: 11° / 5° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:09Sunset 16:27

9h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leicester University, United Kingdom

• 7.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.4% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

107 reported · August 2026▲ 13% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences37
• Anti-social behaviour22
• Criminal damage & arson16
• Public order10

6 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

Neighbourhood team: Shepshed Loughborough West · Leicestershire

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

163 reported road collisions (2025)

46 killed or seriously injured · 208 casualties · 8.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

94 food businesses within 2 miles

• 84 rated 4–5 ★ (75 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Loughborough Central (6.4 km)
• 42 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£270,351 average▲ 0.4% YoY

Across Charnwood · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£960 average monthly rent▲ 4.2% YoY

• 1 bed £679
• 2 bed £847
• 3 bed £1,029

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

2,332 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 169.9p · Asda (9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 196.9p · Asda (9 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

35 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 560 kW
• Nearest: ASDA Shepshed Supermarket (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches13
• Playgrounds19

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK17,429
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK16,548
• Net moves+881

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 232 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

64 inspected 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 homes165
• GP practices107
• Dentists134
• Homecare agencies172
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Leicestershire

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

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

258 applications decided

93.8% granted · 242 granted, 16 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Dr Jeevun Sandher

Labour

Loughborough

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 20
• Con 23
• Grn 7
• Oth 2

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

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,665 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

24 jobs advertised · £34,365 avg

e.g. HGV Class 1 Driver, Full time Day Care Assistant, Associate Dentist - Charnwood, Shepshed

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

58% low-carbon electricity

Gas 39% · Wind 32% · Biomass 23% · Imports 3%

182 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.9 yrs women · 80.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Leicestershire): 61.4 women · 61.5 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

14 GP surgeries · 11 pharmacies in LE12

• Quorn Medical Centre
• Barrow Health Centre
• Forest House Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Loughborough:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills330 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND252 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks151 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth139 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately107 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Shepshed railway station · 0.4 km

  Shepshed railway station was a station on the Charnwood Forest Railway. Near the town of Shepshed, Leicestershire.

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  Shepshed · 0.7 km

  Shepshed is a market town and civil parish in the Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England with a population of 14,875 at the 2021 census. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Loughborough.

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  St Botolph's Church, Shepshed · 0.8 km

  St Botolph's Church, Shepshed is the Church of England Parish Church in Shepshed, Leicestershire.

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  Shepshed Dynamo F.C. · 1.0 km

  Shepshed Dynamo Football Club is an English football club based in the small town of Shepshed in the north west of Leicestershire, England. Founded as Shepshed Albion towards the end of the 19th century, the team pla…

• Iveshead School · 1.0 km

  Iveshead School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form situated within the town of Shepshed, Leicestershire, England.

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  Morley Quarry · 1.0 km

  Morley Quarry is a 3.1 hectares Local Nature Reserve on the southern outskirts of Shepshed in Leicestershire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)