Roman Terrace is rows of terraced brick, freehold from end to end, the kind of street where houses change hands quietly rather than through a bidding war. Eight sales in the recent sample and every one of them freehold terraced or thereabouts tells you this is a settled, unglamorous streetscape rather than a new-build estate or a rental block — the sort of place where a For Sale board tends to stay up for a reasonable stretch rather than vanish overnight. The affordability here is the headline, and it's a stark one: a median terraced sale price sitting at roughly a third of the national terraced average, and about half the price level of Doncaster itself. For anyone priced out of the wider region, that's the pull. Set against that, the safety picture asks for a level head — the area's crime rate runs well above Doncaster's own borough-wide figure, with violence and sexual offences alone accounting for over half of recorded incidents in the past year. The safety grade sits mid-table rather than at the bottom, and the trend is flat rather than worsening, which matters: this isn't a place getting rapidly worse, it's a place that has settled at a level worth knowing about before you commit. Schools-wise, Highwoods Academy carries a Good Ofsted rating for its 200-odd primary pupils, a solid rather than exceptional option, and it fits a place where the median age sits under 39 — younger than both the regional and national averages, suggesting families and younger households rather than a retirement pocket. Full-fibre broadband reaches nearly all homes, which counts for something if you're working from the terrace rather than commuting out of it. Green space provision runs ahead of both the regional and national benchmarks per head of population, giving the density here — and it is dense, above the national average — somewhere to breathe. This is a place that suits someone who wants a foothold on the property ladder without the price tag that comes with much of Yorkshire and The Humber, and who isn't unsettled by an above-average crime count so long as it isn't climbing. It won't suit someone chasing a lively evening scene — nightlife here is modest — or someone whose first and only priority is a quiet crime sheet. Go in with eyes open on the safety figures, and the affordability starts to look less like a red flag and more like the trade-off it actually is.