Neighbourhoods in Darlington
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
14 neighbourhoods · 66 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Rise Carr | £521 | +6.0% | 85 | 10 |
| Darlington 016 | £527 | +6.0% | 92 | 23 |
| Bank Top | £539 | +6.0% | 85 | 22 |
| Firthmoor | £562 | +6.0% | 99 | 53 |
| Albert Hill & Red Hall | £588 | +6.0% | 85 | 8 |
| Haughton Le Skerne | £597 | +6.0% | 98 | 54 |
| Cockerton & Hopetown | £608 | +6.0% | 97 | 62 |
| Park East | £609 | +6.0% | 85 | 13 |
| Harrowgate Hill | £622 | +6.0% | 98 | 62 |
| Whinfield | £696 | +6.0% | 93 | 77 |
| Faverdale, Heighington & Sadberge | £764 | +6.0% | 75 | 77 |
| Middleton & Hurworth | £848 | +6.0% | 79 | 39 |
| College & Park West | £859 | +6.0% | 96 | 80 |
| Hummersknott | £902 | +6.0% | 96 | 93 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Darlington
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Darlington. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Darlington median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Darlington.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Darlington
Crime in Darlington runs at in line with the national average. Bottom quartile (#271 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 90.3, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Darlington
100% of schools serving Darlington are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Darlington
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Darlington
Darlington has 0.51 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Darlington
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Darlington?
- The median monthly rent across Darlington is £666, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Darlington?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Darlington by estimated median rent is Rise Carr at approximately £521/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Darlington?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Darlington is Firthmoor at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Darlington a safe area?
- Darlington has an average safety score of 47/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Darlington?
- The most common council tax band in Darlington is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,065. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Darlington.
- What is the average salary in Darlington?
- The median annual resident salary in Darlington is £30,100, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Darlington, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Darlington?
- The average property price in Darlington is approximately £157,389 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Darlington?
- Gross rental yield in Darlington is approximately 4.8% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Darlington?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.5 years in Darlington. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Darlington?
- 100% of premises in Darlington are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Darlington?
- 3.7% of 16-64 residents in Darlington are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Darlington?
- Darlington contains 14 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 66 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Darlington
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Darlington 012D
- Darlington 016F
- Darlington 016E
- Darlington 016H
- Darlington 014A
- Darlington 012E
- Darlington 004D
- Darlington 013B
- Darlington 006B
- Darlington 016A
- Darlington 009C
- Darlington 012A
- Darlington 002E
- Darlington 004A
- Darlington 006A
- Darlington 012B
- Darlington 002D
- Darlington 016B
- Darlington 013C
- Darlington 009A
- Darlington 016D
- Darlington 010E
- Darlington 016G
- Darlington 001B
- Darlington 014B
- Darlington 014D
- Darlington 006F
- Darlington 010C
- Darlington 003A
- Darlington 011D
- Darlington 002C
- Darlington 006D
- Darlington 001E
- Darlington 006E
- Darlington 009F
- Darlington 015C
- Darlington 012C
- Darlington 004B
- Darlington 005A
- Darlington 003D
- Darlington 014C
- Darlington 010D
- Darlington 015A
- Darlington 015B
- Darlington 001F
- Darlington 015E
- Darlington 005D
- Darlington 005C
- Darlington 013A
- Darlington 003B
- Darlington 001D
- Darlington 004C
- Darlington 011A
- Darlington 001C
- Darlington 011C
- Darlington 016C
- Darlington 002F
- Darlington 010A
- Darlington 005B
- Darlington 015D
- Darlington 011B
- Darlington 003C
- Darlington 009B
- Darlington 006C
- Darlington 011E
- Darlington 009E