Mosborough
Neighbourhood · 18,449 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 8 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
- 60% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- 16 rail or tube stations within a short walk
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Mosborough
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Mosborough a good place to live?
Mosborough scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (82) and transport (73).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Mosborough in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Mosborough
Mosborough reads as pebble-dashed semis and privet hedges rather than anything glossy — a settled, outer-Sheffield suburb where the streets are quiet enough that you notice a car alarm. It's not a place that performs for visitors; there's no obvious strip to impress anyone, just the steady texture of a community that's been here a while and isn't going anywhere. The median age of 41 tells you this isn't a graduate enclave or a first-time-buyer sprint — it's settled households, some of them raising kids, some of them well past that stage.
The housing picture is the clearest signal of who this suits. Semi-detached freeholds dominate the sales here, which is the classic shape of a street where people buy to stay rather than flip — and at a median of £235,000, against a national figure of £281,000, you're paying less here than the country average, though you're actually paying a touch more than Sheffield itself (prices run about 7% above the city's typical figure). That premium within the city likely reflects the schooling: Mosborough Primary School carries an Outstanding rating, with Halfway Junior and Shortbrook Primary both rated Good nearby, so a family settling here has real options without needing to gamble on catchment. The one discordant note in an otherwise strong set of grades is schools at C+ for the area overall — Ofsted ratings at the individual school level look fine, so that grade likely reflects progress data rather than the primaries themselves, worth a closer look if education is your main driver.