Electoral wardE05014675
Loughborough Outwoods & Shelthorpe ward, Charnwood
Loughborough Outwoods & Shelthorpe is one of 24 electoral wards of Charnwood Borough Council, in Leicestershire (East Midlands). At the 2021 Census it had 10,573 residents in 4,149 households — 1,573 people per km², the 4th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Loughborough constituency; for county elections it is in the Loughborough South and Loughborough South West divisions.
Residents, 202110,573council ward average 7,666
Households4,1492.55 residents per household
Density1,573/ km²about 6.72 km² · Charnwood 659
Aged 65+20.8%Charnwood: 18.8% · under 16: 18.5%
Census 2021
Age of residents
0–44.7% · 497
5–95.8% · 618
10–158.0% · 843
16–196.2% · 656
20–246.8% · 717
25–3410.9% · 1,152
35–4917.9% · 1,888
50–6419.0% · 2,003
65–7410.1% · 1,071
75–847.2% · 761
85+3.4% · 362
Car or van availability
Share of households.
No car or van15.6% · 649
1 car or van41.0% · 1,701
2 cars or vans32.4% · 1,344
3 or more11.1% · 459
Census 2021
Housing tenure
Share of households; Charnwood overall: 69.8% owned, 11.7% social rented, 17.4% private rented.
Owned outright42.6% · 1,766
With mortgage29.5% · 1,225
Shared ownership0.7% · 31
Social rented14.7% · 608
Private rented12.5% · 517
Lives rent free0.1% · 3
Type of home
Detached house35.5% · 1,472
Semi-detached house49.7% · 2,061
Terraced house12.3% · 511
Purpose-built flat1.3% · 53
Converted house0.7% · 29
Other conversion0.0% · 1
Above shop / office0.4% · 16
Caravan, mobile0.1% · 3
Electoral geography
Ward facts
- Ward code (GSS)
E05014675- Council
- Charnwood Borough Council
- County council
- Leicestershire County Council
- County division
- Loughborough South, Loughborough South West
- Constituency
- Loughborough
- Region
- East Midlands
- Density rank in council
- 10 of 24
Other wards in the same constituency
BBarrow upon Soar22.0% aged 65+ · 76.6% owned7,358DDishley, Hathern & Thorpe Acre22.9% aged 65+ · 76.3% owned9,190LLoughborough Ashby12.1% aged 65+ · 52.6% owned12,374LLoughborough East11.2% aged 65+ · 40.8% owned12,179LLoughborough Nanpantan23.4% aged 65+ · 81.2% owned2,958LLoughborough Southfields10.7% aged 65+ · 39.7% owned7,639LLoughborough Storer12.0% aged 65+ · 38.6% owned8,291LLoughborough Woodthorpe8.8% aged 65+ · 77.2% owned4,789QQuorn & Mountsorrel Castle24.0% aged 65+ · 76.7% owned7,259SShepshed East22.5% aged 65+ · 70.8% owned6,946SShepshed West21.5% aged 65+ · 73.9% owned7,923SSileby & Seagrave16.1% aged 65+ · 72.4% owned8,419TThe Wolds21.4% aged 65+ · 85.3% owned3,253
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0This ward was drawn after the 2021 Census: figures are built up from the 7 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.