Bracken Moor
Neighbourhood · 308 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 88% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Transport scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bracken Moor
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bracken Moor a good place to live?
Bracken Moor scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75) and transport (72).
It scores lowest on health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bracken Moor in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bracken Moor
Bracken Moor is the kind of suburb where terraced and semi-detached streets sit close together and nobody's house looks much newer than its neighbour's — this is settled, established Sheffield, not a place still being built. The population here is small and dense, and the mix of ages sits right on the national average, which tells you it's not a retirement pocket or a student strip; it's ordinary family and working-age territory that's been lived in for a while.
On price, this is where the numbers matter most: a typical sale here comes in well below both the Sheffield city figure and the national median, and freehold ownership is essentially universal — every sale in the local sample was freehold, dominated by semis and terraces rather than flats. That combination, low entry price plus outright ownership as the norm, is the classic signature of a solid, unglamorous suburb rather than an investment-flipping zone; the new-build share is zero, so what you view is what's been there for decades. Stocksbridge Junior School gives a sense of the local primary offer, an academy converter with a few hundred pupils, though you won't find Ofsted's verdict published for it here, so judge it on a visit rather than a grade.
The overall grade pattern is steady rather than spiky — affordability, connectivity, and nightlife all land comfortably above the national average, environment scores even higher, and health and schools sit right on it. The one figure worth pausing on is safety, graded respectably in isolation but revealing a real gap once you compare it with Sheffield as a whole: the local crime rate runs sharply higher than the city benchmark, with violence and sexual offences alone accounting for almost half of recorded incidents, and anti-social behaviour and criminal damage making up much of the rest. The trend, at least, is flat rather than worsening, so this looks like a persistent local pattern rather than a spiral. It's the kind of detail that won't show up on a walk down the street but is worth sitting with before you commit.