Richmond

On schools, the area is served by a mix of primaries and one nearby secondary academy, Outwood Academy City, whose pupils currently make less progress than the national average by the time they sit their GCSEs - worth knowing if education is high on your list, though primary provision locally is more mixed and less easily judged from the numbers alone. Green space is modest rather than generous: three plots covering not much ground, enough for a dog walk or a kickabout but not sprawling parkland. Transport-wise there are two dozen stops serving the area, which points to a place built around buses and short hops rather than a train-commuter's dream; this reads as a place for people who work locally or don't need to cross the city daily.

The crime figures are the one place where the data runs against the grain of everything else. Violence and sexual offences make up well over a third of all recorded crime here, and the area's overall crime rate sits more than double Sheffield's own average - a genuinely out-of-step figure against an otherwise unremarkable, even reassuring, set of housing and community indicators. Anti-social behaviour and criminal damage follow some way behind, which is a fairly ordinary urban mix, but the headline share is worth sitting with rather than skimming past. Whether that changes your answer depends on what you're weighing it against: if you want low-cost, well-established freehold housing in a compact, unglamorous slice of Sheffield, and you're comfortable looking squarely at a crime profile that runs hotter than its surroundings, Richmond is honest about what it is. If personal safety statistics are your first filter rather than your last, this is the paragraph to read twice before you view a house.

Data last updated: 19 October 2026