Merrybent

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 7° · 66% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:12Sunset 16:27

9h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

• 5.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

7 reported · August 2026▼ 68% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour3
• Other theft2
• Burglary1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Darlington (West Villages) · Durham

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

137 reported road collisions (2025)

46 killed or seriously injured · 161 casualties · 12.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

78 food businesses within 2 miles

• 68 rated 4–5 ★ (63 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

£159,770 average▲ 1.9% YoY

Across Darlington · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£689 average monthly rent▲ 6.4% YoY

• 1 bed £496
• 2 bed £629
• 3 bed £766

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

1,633 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · BP (4.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (4.2 km)

9 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,349
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,297
• Net moves+1,052

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 103 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

20% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

42 inspected 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)

107 applications decided

96.3% granted · 103 granted, 4 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Lola McEvoy

Labour

Darlington

Source: UK Parliament

Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 23
• Con 13
• LD 2
• Grn 6
• Ref 2
• Oth 4

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

• Schools1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens2
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,255 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£705 median full-time weekly pay

3.5% 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

65% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 37% · Imports 35% · Wind 25% · Solar 4%

1 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

11 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in DL2

• Rockliffe Court Surgery
• Gainford Surgery
• Middleton And Dinsdale Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Darlington:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth214 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Allow up to 10 days authorised school leave per year without fines129 local signatures · 4,518 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK126 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills117 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Mandate standardised cancer training for all GPs in England113 local signatures · 18,645 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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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 in the 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)