Renting in Loughborough
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The median asking rent in Loughborough is £845 a month for a 1-bed (565 live listings), £1,343 for a 2-bed (244 live listings), £1,430 for a 3-bed (153 live listings) and £2,600 for a 4+ bed home (924 live listings), on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
Median asking rent
No single figure for Loughborough this month
This month it doesn’t fit the 1-, 2- and 3-bed figures, which usually means large student houses dominate the listings. The figures by size below are not affected.
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £845/moasking · 565 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,343/moasking · 244 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,430/moasking · 153 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,600/moasking · 924 listings · Oct 2026 |
Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated . Weekly prices normalised to monthly. Each figure counts the live listings behind it; rooms are per room.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent in Loughborough by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/loughborough, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Loughborough
Loughborough currently has 1,894 rental listings on the property sites we track. The median asking rent in Loughborough is £845 a month for a 1-bed (565 live listings), £1,343 for a 2-bed (244 live listings), £1,430 for a 3-bed (153 live listings) and £2,600 for a 4+ bed home (924 live listings), on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 1,078 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 90% are houses and the rest are flats. How we measure this
Rents vary sharply by postcode. Median asking rents for homes of all sizes run from £805 a month in LE1 (12 live listings) to £1,950 in LE11 (1,619 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Loughborough (Dwellio, October 2026). For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Loughborough, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Loughborough is £845 a month, from 565 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Loughborough is £1,343 a month, from 244 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Loughborough is £1,430 a month, from 153 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Loughborough is £2,600 a month, from 924 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property. Each size needs at least 10 live listings. Studio figures are hidden for now: listings whose bedroom count we couldn’t read were being counted as studios. How we measure this
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Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in Charnwood is £967 a month, up 4.8% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). Charnwood is the ONS area that covers Loughborough. The Office for National Statistics’ Price Index of Private Rents is the official series for rents being paid, including long-running tenancies; Dwellio’s figures above are asking rents.
Annual
+4.8%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+38%
since 2021
Source: Office for National Statistics · Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Updated monthly with a ~2-month lag. ONS uses Broad Rental Market Areas in Scotland — figures may aggregate beyond the city itself. How we measure this
Property types
10% of listings
90% of listings
0% of listings
Property mix · houses
Other house houses make up 93% of the 1,575 houses currently advertised in Loughborough.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 1,797 live listings in 6 districts (October 2026). Districts with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental; rooms in shared houses are left out.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in Loughborough, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/loughborough, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Loughborough
Live signal across 1,894 Loughborough rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
85%
of 93 Loughborough listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
90%
of 116 Loughborough listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
1,078 homes came onto the Loughborough rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
Studio property
Park Road (All Bills Included), Loughborough LE11
2 bed property
Cliff Avenue, Loughborough LE11
2 bed property
Burder Street, Loughborough LE11
3 bed property
Ratcliffe Road, Loughborough LE11
6 bed semi-detached house
6 Bed Semi-Detached House, York Road, LE11
1 bed flat/apartment
6 bed semi-detached house
6 Bed Semi-Detached House, Radmoor Road, LE11
6 bed terraced house
6 Bed Terraced House, Robin Mews, LE11
6 bed house
6 bed detached house
6 Bed Detached House, Ashleigh Drive, LE11
4 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Epinal Court, LE11
3 bed semi-detached house
3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Rydal Avenue, LE11
6 bed semi-detached house
6 Bed Semi-Detached House, Holt Drive, LE11
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed End Terrace, Knipton Drive, LE11
2 bed house
Nanpantan Road, Loughborough LE11
1 bed flat/apartment
Flat 7 Wharncliffe Road, Loughborough LE11
1 bed house
Hog House, Loughborough LE11
1 bed flat/apartment
Ashby Road, Loughborough LE11
1 bed house
Ashby Road, Loughborough LE11
1 bed house
Ashby Road, Loughborough LE11
1 bed house
Park Road, Loughborough LE11
3 bed house
Paget Street, Loughborough LE11
6 bed house
Leopold Street, Loughborough LE11
6 bed house
William Street, Loughborough LE11
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Loughborough. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Loughborough homes sit in Band B. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 78,990 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
B
most common band
Mean band
2.97
≈ Band B–C
Stock
79k
78,990 properties
Source: HM Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax Stock of Properties (CTSOP1.0), extract dated 31 March 2024. Covers England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate band schemes and aren't included.
Broadband · Ofcom Connected Nations
75% of Loughborough premises can already get full-fibre and 85% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
75%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
85%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
453 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Charnwood), July 2025, covering 77,630 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
50% of Loughborough homes hold a current EPC in bands A–C — the bands that meet the proposed 2030 minimum energy-efficiency standard for rented stock.
Bands A–C
50%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
50%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
65k
64,578 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Charnwood. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
8 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Loughborough centroid. The five closest:
Limehurst Academy
Secondary · Academy converter · LE11 1NH
Cobden Primary School & Community Centre
Primary · Academy converter · LE11 1AF
Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School, Loughborough
Primary · Academy converter · LE11 5AX
Loughborough Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · LE11 3BY
Rendell Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · LE11 1LL
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Loughborough centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
Area safety
Based on the latest police data (October 2026), Loughborough has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 44 of 44 postcode districts analysed, the median was 222 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Loughborough is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Loughborough’s overall figures sit above the national median, but crime varies a lot by neighbourhood. Dwellio alerts include the area’s data so you can pick the right street.
Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
Area breakdown
Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for August 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.
Most common: Violent crime (123) · pop. ~7,000
Most common: Violent crime (67) · pop. ~2,500
Most common: Violent crime (59) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (31) · pop. ~4,000
Most common: Violent crime (108) · pop. ~5,000
Suburbs shown are representative populated areas; figures reflect street-level incidents within ~1 mile of each centre. Data from data.police.uk. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
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The median asking rent in Loughborough is £845 a month for a 1-bed (565 live listings), £1,343 for a 2-bed (244 live listings), £1,430 for a 3-bed (153 live listings) and £2,600 for a 4+ bed home (924 live listings), on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
This month it doesn’t fit the 1-, 2- and 3-bed figures, which usually means large student houses dominate the listings. The median asking rents by size are not affected.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Loughborough is £845 a month, from 565 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Loughborough is £1,343 a month, from 244 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Loughborough is £1,430 a month, from 153 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Loughborough is £2,600 a month, from 924 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 1,894 rental properties available in Loughborough, with 1,078 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Loughborough has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 222 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Loughborough is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East Midlands
How Loughborough compares with the other 14 places we track in East Midlands — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across East Midlands, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/loughborough, updated 28 October 2026.
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