Merrybent

14°COvercast

• Today: 22° / 14° · 19% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 12° · Sunny

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

57US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

9 reported · July 2026▲ 13% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Shoplifting2
• Violence & sexual offences2
• Burglary1

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)

79 food businesses within 2 miles

• 71 rated 4–5 ★ (64 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: North Road (4.3 km)
• 4 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 (4.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (6.5 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

31 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 200 kW
• Nearest: West Park Hospital (2.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Playgrounds3

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
• 12 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
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens2
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,190 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

10 jobs advertised · £50,000 avg

e.g. Area Sales Manager, Become a Music Tutor in Merrybent – Flexible & Remote, Online Biology Tutor - Part Time

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

58% low-carbon electricity

Imports 43% · Wind 27% · Nuclear 20% · Biomass 11%

14 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

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  Low Coniscliffe · 0.6 km

  Low Coniscliffe is a village in the civil parish of Low Coniscliffe and Merrybent, in County Durham, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 716. It is situated 3 miles (5 km) west of…

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  Merrybent · 0.6 km

  Merrybent is a linear village in the civil parish of Low Coniscliffe and Merrybent in County Durham, in England. It is situated on the A67 road to the west of Darlington, a short distance to the north of the River Tee…

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  Tees Cottage Pumping Station · 0.9 km

  Tees Cottage Pumping Station is a Victorian pumping station complex at Broken Scar on the A67 near Low Coniscliffe just west of Darlington. The site dates from 1849, and was built to provide drinking water for Darling…

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  St Peter's Church, Cleasby · 1.3 km

  St Peter's Church is the parish church of Cleasby, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

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  Cleasby · 1.4 km

  Cleasby is a village and civil parish county of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the River Tees and Darlington and the A1(M). The population at the 2011 Census of ONS was 208.

• Hummersknott Academy · 1.5 km

  Hummersknott Academy is a secondary school in Darlington in the north east of England. It has approximately 1,250 pupils aged eleven to sixteen.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)