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Electoral wardE05010862

City ward, Sheffield

City is one of 28 electoral wards of Sheffield City Council (Yorkshire and The Humber). At the 2021 Census it had 21,484 residents in 6,898 households — 6,612 people per km², the 8th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Sheffield Central constituency.

Residents, 202121,484council ward average 19,928
Households6,8983.11 residents per household
Density6,612/ km²about 3.25 km² · Sheffield 1,338
Aged 65+1.4%Sheffield: 17.1% · under 16: 4.0%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–41.9% · 407
5–91.1% · 244
10–151.0% · 216
16–1916.5% · 3,555
20–2439.9% · 8,582
25–3426.9% · 5,773
35–498.0% · 1,709
50–643.3% · 699
65–740.9% · 204
75–840.3% · 68
85+0.1% · 26

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van59.6% · 4,109
1 car or van32.7% · 2,255
2 cars or vans6.6% · 453
3 or more1.2% · 81
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Sheffield overall: 58.3% owned, 22.5% social rented, 18.7% private rented.

Owned outright6.7% · 459
With mortgage9.8% · 679
Shared ownership0.4% · 27
Social rented11.2% · 774
Private rented71.8% · 4,955
Lives rent free0.1% · 4

Type of home

Detached house0.9% · 63
Semi-detached house2.1% · 147
Terraced house11.1% · 767
Purpose-built flat72.9% · 5,030
Converted house1.8% · 121
Other conversion8.6% · 593
Above shop / office2.4% · 169
Caravan, mobile0.1% · 8
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0Census figures for this ward as published on 2022 ward boundaries, which still apply.