Templeborough
Suburb · 181 residents
67Good
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
- 52% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 90% of the area
- Food & drink scores 28, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Templeborough
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Templeborough a good place to live?
Templeborough scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (79) and health (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (28).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Templeborough in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Templeborough
Templeborough is terraced streets and industrial memory — narrow Victorian rows and semis sitting close to Rotherham's old steelworking heartland, the kind of place where the housing stock tells you what the area was built for before anyone mentions what it's become. It isn't polished, and it doesn't pretend to be; this is a working suburb, not a lifestyle one.
The practical picture is mixed in a way that rewards a close look. A rail link at Magna Platform runs alongside eight other transport stops, which is why the connectivity and transport grades come out strong — this is a suburb built around getting in and out easily, useful if your working life is elsewhere in Sheffield or Rotherham. Schools are more middling: Brinsworth Academy handles secondary-age pupils at real scale, and its Progress 8 score sits a little below the national average, a fact worth weighing rather than a red flag on its own. Housing is unusually affordable — the median sale price of £125,000 runs about 31% below Rotherham's own average, and with 19 of 22 recent sales freehold and terraces dominating the market, a For Sale board here is almost always advertising a modest freehold terrace rather than anything grander. That affordability is echoed in the income and deprivation figures: this sits toward the less affluent end nationally, which explains the value on offer as much as anything about the place itself.
Green space is thin — one plot of well under a hectare is what the suburb has to offer directly, so weekend life here leans on what's beyond the boundary rather than a park at the end of the road. The bigger conversation piece is safety: violence and sexual offences make up 40% of recorded crime, and the overall crime rate runs dramatically higher than Rotherham's borough-wide average. That's the one grade that breaks the pattern set by the B+ scores elsewhere — connectivity, affordability, housing and environment all read as solidly above-average, then safety drops to a B with a trend that's held flat rather than worsening. It's not a suburb in decline, but it's not one where you'd stop noticing the crime figures either.