Sheffield Profile

Sheffield is one of England’s largest cities and a metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.  It gained its city charter in 1893 and officially became titled the City of Sheffield.

Sheffield is located fairly centrally in Britain in the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire.  It is the only city to include part of a national park, the Peak District, within its borders...

 

With a population of 525,800, the City of Sheffield is England’s third largest metropolitan authority.  At its peak, in 1951, the population numbered 577,050...

 

Sheffield City Council is a metropolitan district.  As such, it has responsibility for the full range of local authority services...

Following several years of decline, the Sheffield economy is going through a strong revival.  The Sheffield economy in 2004 was worth £7.8 billion...

Sheffield is linked into the national motorway network via the M1 and M18.  The A57 and A61 are major trunk routes through the city.  Sheffield is also an important hub in the national network of long-distance bus routes...

There are around 227,000 households currently in Sheffield, based on occupied properties in the Council Tax register...

The city has two universities – the University of Sheffield and the Sheffield Hallam University – with over 50,000 students...

Sheffield has a thriving cultural and creative industries sector, accounting for 7.2% of Sheffield’s working population – almost double the national average...

Sheffield is the first National City of Sport, with a range of high quality facilities originally built for the World Student Games in the city in 1991...