At the time of the 1991 census, more than half the housing in this seat was still owned by the local authority - the highest figure in Sheffield, and indeed in the entire Yorkshire/Humberside region. The make-up of the seat is predominantly urban residential, although the blandness of the housing is relieved somewhat by the impressive views afforded from some of the city's seven hills. There is a little industry located on the eastern side of the seat, but unemployment here is twice above the national average.