Hunshelf Bank
Neighbourhood · 53 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hunshelf Bank
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hunshelf Bank a good place to live?
Hunshelf Bank scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (72) and transport (71).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hunshelf Bank in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hunshelf Bank
Terraced stone rows climb the hillside here, the kind of streets where a For Sale board means a solid two-up-two-down rather than anything new-built — this is Sheffield's edge country, not its centre, and it looks it: compact, worn-in, unpretentious.
Houses move at prices that would raise eyebrows further south — the median sale sits at £170,000, comfortably below both the national and regional norms, and terraces (the dominant type here) go for noticeably less than the typical terrace price across the country. Almost all of it is freehold, and the sales mix leans hard towards terraced and semi-detached stock, with only a handful of flats and detached houses changing hands. Against Sheffield itself, prices actually run about 17% higher, which tells you Hunshelf Bank trades at a slight premium to the city it sits beside, even while undercutting the national picture comfortably. Royd Nursery and Infant School serves the area's younger families, and with a median age of 45.3 — noticeably older than both the regional and national averages — this reads as settled, established territory rather than a first-rung starter suburb.
Green space per head runs ahead of both regional and national averages, which fits the hillside setting, and the grades tell a consistent story: solid marks for affordability, environment, transport and housing, all clustering around or above the national average. The one place that breaks pattern is health, sitting at a C+ while everything else holds a B or better — worth noting if local healthcare access matters to you, since it's the single grade that doesn't match the otherwise comfortable picture. Crime is the other figure that needs unpacking rather than skating past: the total sits at a level that reads high against Sheffield's own rate, more than triple the parent city's per-capita figure, with violence and anti-social behaviour making up nearly half of all recorded incidents. That's a meaningful trade-off against the otherwise reassuring grades, and it's the kind of thing worth sitting with rather than dismissing on the strength of the B-grade overall.