Heighington

16°COvercast

• Today: 22° / 13° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:28

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

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

27 reported · July 2026▲ 145% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences18
• Anti-social behaviour3
• Criminal damage & arson2
• Other theft2

Neighbourhood team: Darlington (West Villages) · 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)

24 food businesses within 2 miles

• 21 rated 4–5 ★ (20 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Heighington (2.4 km)
• 2 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: 135.8p · AppleGreen (7.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (7.3 km)

14 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

28 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: S.W. Durham Training 1 (3.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches4
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

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

• In a conservation area (Heighington)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 53 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)

• Schools1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,190 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

7 jobs advertised

e.g. Team Leader - Children's Homes, Children's Home Team Leader, Online Personal trainers Tutoring Job in Heighington (Lincolnshire) – Flexible Schedule

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

57% low-carbon electricity

Imports 43% · Wind 26% · Nuclear 20% · 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

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

• Heighington, County Durham · 0.1 km

  Heighington is a village in the borough of Darlington and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,395. It is situated between Darlington and Shildon, ne…

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  St Michael's Church, Heighington · 0.2 km

  St Michael's Church is a Church of England parish church in Heighington, Darlington, County Durham. The church is a grade I listed building.

• Heighington Church of England Primary School · 0.2 km

  Heighington CE Primary School is a Church of England primary school with academy status located in the village of Heighington, near Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. As of 2016 it educated 279 pupils aged 4–11. At its O…

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  Redworth Hall · 1.2 km

  Redworth Hall is a 17th-century country house at Redworth, Heighington, County Durham, England now converted to a hotel. It is a listed building.

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  Redworth · 1.3 km

  Redworth is a village in the civil parish of Heighington in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It is west of Newton Aycliffe being situated between Darlington and Shildon.

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  School Aycliffe · 1.9 km

  School Aycliffe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great Aycliffe, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It is a short distance west of Newton Aycliffe, an…

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