Darton

9°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 8° · 65% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:11Sunset 16:27

9h 17m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

28US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leeds Centre, United Kingdom

• 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

51 reported · August 2026▼ 26% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences21
• Anti-social behaviour17
• Public order4
• Other theft3

Neighbourhood team: Barnsley North Neighbourhood Policing Team · South Yorkshire

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

555 reported road collisions (2025)

167 killed or seriously injured · 722 casualties · 15.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

141 food businesses within 2 miles

• 127 rated 4–5 ★ (117 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Darton (0.3 km)
• 35 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£199,283 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Wakefield · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£806 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

• 1 bed £576
• 2 bed £726
• 3 bed £869

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

5.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.6 times median annual pay (5.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

4,321 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: 157.9p · Shell (11 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Shell (11 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

30 charging locations within ~8 km

• 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Church Street Car Park, Darton 1 (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches14
• Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

353,364 residents in Wakefield · 1,044/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK15,357
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK13,379
• Net moves+1,978

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 63 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

17% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,297 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (48% of 165,130)

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

157 schools · 56,122 pupils

113 primary · 18 secondary · 26 other

Ofsted: 51 of 61 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wakefield

302 CQC-registered services

• Care homes97
• GP practices42
• Dentists60
• Homecare agencies83
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wakefield

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

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

307 applications decided

93.5% granted · 287 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Dan Jarvis

Labour

Barnsley North

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 1
• Con 1
• LD 2
• Grn 1
• Ref 55
• Oth 3

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

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens13
• Restaurants & cafés14

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

12,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

8 jobs advertised · £29,406 avg

e.g. Work from Home (Researcher), Packing Operative, Warehouse Operative

Source: Adzuna

£689 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,460 disposable income per head (2024)

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

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 204,474 certificates

13.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

83% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 41% · Wind 38% · Gas 12% · Imports 5%

97 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.2 yrs women · 77.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 53.8 women · 54 men

73% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

6 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in S75

• Hill Brow Surgery Pms Practice
• Victoria Medical Centre Pms Practice
• Darton Health Centre Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Barnsley North:

• Make carbon monoxide alarms mandatory in all holiday accommodation463 local signatures · 23,659 nationwide
• Require NHS to offer base line X-rays for children born with a limb difference225 local signatures · 3,654 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth224 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND166 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Review discharge of mental health patients135 local signatures · 14,649 nationwide

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

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  Darton railway station · 0.3 km

  Darton railway station is a railway station in a large village of Darton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern Trains.

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  All Saints Church, Darton · 0.4 km

  The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Darton in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds. The 16th-century building is Grade I listed and was built o…

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  Darton · 0.4 km

  Darton is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, on the border with West Yorkshire, England. At the time of the 2001 UK census, it had a population of 14,927, increasing to 21,345 for both Darton War…

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  Woolley Colliery · 1.0 km

  Woolley Colliery was a coal mine sunk near Darton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Coal mines in the area were worked as early as 1850, and in the 1860s two rows of terrace cottages were built to accommodate miners. T…

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  Kexbrough · 1.2 km

  Kexbrough is a village in the Barnsley district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire. The village falls within the Darton West ward of Barnsley MBC. It is located west of the M…

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  Mapplewell · 1.6 km

  Mapplewell is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. The village currently falls within the Barnsley MBC ward of Darton East.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)