Darlington

14°COvercast

• Today: 23° / 14° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 13° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:27

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

42US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stockton-on-Tees Eaglescliffe, United Kingdom

349 reported · July 2026▲ 7% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour101
• Violence & sexual offences96
• Shoplifting28
• Criminal damage & arson24

9 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Darlington (North Road) · Durham

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

119 reported road collisions (2024)

42 killed or seriously injured · 156 casualties · 11 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 431 rated 4–5 ★ (401 top)
• 10 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: North Road (0.9 km)
• 20 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£158,188 average▲ 3.8% YoY

Across Darlington · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£686 average monthly rent▲ 6.2% YoY

• 1 bed £494
• 2 bed £626
• 3 bed £762

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

5.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.3 times median annual pay (4.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · BP (1.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (2.3 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

33 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 200 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons Darlington (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms2
• Sports pitches13
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

107,801 residents in Darlington · 546/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 103 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

18% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,494 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (43% of 53,800)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

48 schools · 16,037 pupils

29 primary · 7 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 20 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

42inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Darlington

101 CQC-registered services

• Care homes32
• GP practices12
• Dentists24
• Homecare agencies20
• Hospitals & hospices7

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Darlington

• Not in the Green Belt
• 42 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

104 applications decided

93.3% granted · 97 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Lola McEvoy

Labour

Darlington

Source: UK Parliament

Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 23
• Con 13
• LD 2
• Grn 6
• Ref 1
• Oth 5

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools9
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens13
• Restaurants & cafés44

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,190 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

962 jobs advertised · £41,021 avg

e.g. Children's Home Team Leader, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Nursery Practitioner Level 3

Source: Adzuna

£705 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,587 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 58,960 certificates

10.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

61% low-carbon electricity

Imports 39% · Wind 32% · Nuclear 17% · Biomass 12%

15 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.1 yrs women · 78.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58.6 women · 58.6 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

16 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in DL3

• Orchard Court Surgery
• Moorlands Surgery
• Carmel Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Darlington:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office404 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership383 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s351 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership228 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test220 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Rise Carr · 0.1 km

  Rise Carr is a place in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north of the centre of Darlington.

• Longfield Academy, Darlington · 0.6 km

  Longfield Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Darlington, County Durham, England.

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  Darlington Works · 0.6 km

  Darlington Works was established in 1863 by the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the town of Darlington in the north east of England. The main part of the works, the North Road Shops was located on the northeast sid…

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  Hopetown Carriage Works · 0.8 km

  Hopetown Carriage Works, also known as the Stockton and Darlington Railway Carriage Works, was a carriage works of the Stockton and Darlington Railway built in 1853 in Hopetown, near Darlington, County Durham, England.

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  Locomotion No. 1 · 0.8 km

  Locomotion No. 1 is an early steam locomotive that was built in 1825 by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Stephenson and Company. It became the first ste…

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  North Road railway station · 0.9 km

  North Road is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington. The station, situated 1 mile 23 chains (2.1 km) north-west of Darlington, serves the market town…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)