Sheffield Heeley, immediately south of the city centre, has been described as the least remarkable of the six Sheffield constituencies. The seat is a combination of council-rented Victorian terraces and new-ish council estates, and includes high rise accommodations that rise up spectacularly from the Gleadless valley to provide sweeping views of the "Seven Hills City".
As with the city's other five constituencies, Sheffield Heeley was hit hard by the decimation of the city's steel industry during the 1980s and 1990s and unemployment remains above the national average.
The 1991 census put owner occupiers at 52.1% of the population while just over 2% of the electorate was from ethnic minority backgrounds.
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