Sheffield Hillsborough is a highly diverse seat, which includes large stretches of moor land, some farmland, villages, small towns and residential areas that become more concentrated towards the city's centre. Principally it is a residential seat from which people commute to other parts of the city. Confusingly, Sheffield Wednesday's Hillborough Football Stadium, (scene of the 1989 tragedy), is not in this seat but actually in neighbouring Brightside.
The largest employer here is one of the city's few remaining steel works, Stocksbridge, where around 1,400 workers produce specialist steels. Many are also employed on the Thorncliff Industrial Estate which straddles the M1 near Chapel Town.
The seat is mixed geographically and stretches into the countryside of the Peak District.