Allan Street Darlington

48 addresses across 6 postcodes (DL1), about 430 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 10402524.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £72,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Darlington cost £159,770 in August 2026 (+1.9% on a year); private rents averaged £691 a month.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 14, C: 5, D: 4).
  • Flood: 16 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 11 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Vulcan Street, is 70 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 10 times (3 hours) in 2025.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Darlington costs £2,494 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 80% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is North Road (Darlington), about 790 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 51 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 41 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Denmark Street Surgery, about 860 m (0.5 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 880 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 108 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£72,000£72,000£72,000
20231£60,500£60,500£60,500
20121£45,000£45,000£45,000
20071£73,750£73,750£73,750
20063£105,000£57,000£107,000
20051£51,000£51,000£51,000
20041£42,000£42,000£42,000
20032£64,450£63,950£64,950
19991£24,000£24,000£24,000
19961£19,000£19,000£19,000
19952£26,500£20,000£33,000
All 16 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Jun 199915 DL1 2NRTerraced£24,000
1 Sep 200640 DL1 2NRSemi-detached£105,000
26 Jun 200340 DL1 2NRSemi-detached£63,950New build.
2 Feb 200642 DL1 2NRSemi-detached£107,000
26 Jun 200342 DL1 2NRSemi-detached£64,950New build.
7 Jun 199665 DL1 2NRTerraced£19,000
8 Sep 199567 DL1 2NRTerraced£20,000
28 May 200469 DL1 2NRTerraced£42,000
31 Mar 199571 DL1 2NRDetached£33,000
30 Sep 200587 DL1 2LUTerraced£51,000
3 Nov 202389 DL1 2LUTerraced£60,500
3 May 201289 DL1 2LUTerraced£45,000
23 Jan 202491 DL1 2LUTerraced£72,000
1 May 201591 DL1 2LUTerraced£41,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Mar 200791 DL1 2LUTerraced£73,750
17 Jul 200691 DL1 2LUTerraced£57,000

House prices and rents in Darlington

A typical home in Darlington cost £159,770 in August 2026, 1.9% more than a year before. That is 16% more than five years earlier and 33% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£277,876
Semi-detached£176,173
Terraced£130,904
Flat or maisonette£97,138
Bought by a first-time buyer£140,719

Private renters in Darlington paid £691 a month on average in September 2026, 6.2% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£497
Two bedrooms£631
Three bedrooms£769
Four or more bedrooms£1,095

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: Flat (14); House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 2021 (14); 1967-1975 (2); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,724 kWh of it on average in 2024, 18% less than the district's 10,586 kWh, and 3,302 kWh of electricity, 18% more than the district's 2,798 kWh. There are gas meters for about 73% of the homes.

1 of its postcodes has no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DL1 2NR281,809 kWh 297,672 kWh
DL1 2LX48 33 Economy 74,190 kWh none recorded
DL1 2HL362,679 kWh 3711,429 kWh
DL1 2LY371,730 kWh 376,654 kWh
DL1 2NP252,168 kWh 247,734 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is DL1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Darlington in 2026-27: Band D £2,494 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,663£1,940£2,217£2,494£3,048£3,602£4,156£4,988

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (53% of about 1,130 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Rise Carr, Darlington / CLNR EES3-1 Battery storage 2.5 MW Operational Jun 2014 1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 13 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 13 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 32 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DL1 2NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DL1 2LUnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 0 unlikely
DL1 2LXnot in 2 or 3 6 / 0 / 18 unlikely
DL1 2HLnot in 2 or 3 4 / 1 / 1 unlikely
DL1 2LYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 10 unlikely
DL1 2NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 10 times, for 3 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Skerne, Skerne.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Askrigg Street Combined Sewer Overf Northumbrian Water River Skerne 0 0 540 m (0.3 miles)
Easson Road/Dodds Street Cso Northumbrian Water River Skerne 3 1 730 m (0.5 miles)
Forster Street/Easson Road Cso Northumbrian Water River Skerne 0 0 730 m (0.5 miles)
Rear Forster St/Easson Road Cso Northumbrian Water; monitored 89% of the year River Skerne 2 1 730 m (0.5 miles)
Gladstone Street (G1) Northumbrian Water Skerne 5 1 750 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

11 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 70 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Vulcan Street Darlington, County Durham Not recorded Not recorded 70 m
Cleveland Industrial Estate Cleveland Street, Darlington, County Durham 1986 Inert 180 m
Hundens Depot Vicarage Road, Darlington, County Durham from 1940 Not recorded 190 m
Alexander Street Darlington, County Durham Not recorded Not recorded 250 m
Albert Road Gasworks Albert Road, Darlington, County Durham 1981 Inert 310 m
Former Allotments Site Rear Of Hunders Depot, Darlington, County Durham from 1972 Not recorded 370 m
Dodsworth St, Land North Of Dodsworth Street, Darlington, County Durham 1986 to 1989 Inert, industrial, commercial, household 370 m
Blackett Road Not recorded Commercial, special (hazardous) 410 m (0.3 miles)
British Gas Northern John Street, Darlington, County Durham Not recorded Not recorded 450 m (0.3 miles)
John Street Gasworks John Street Depot, John Street, Darlington, County Durham 1981 to 1984 Inert, industrial, commercial, household; gas control on site 450 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 48 addresses are between 51 m and 52 m above sea level (52 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
DL1 2HL100%100%100%0%
DL1 2LU100%100%80%0%
DL1 2LX100%100%100%0%
DL1 2LY100%100%100%0%
DL1 2NP100%100%100%0%
DL1 2NR100%97%97%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsNorth Road (Darlington) 51,000 journeys in 2024–25790 m (0.5 miles)
Darlington 2.8 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Dinsdale 88,000 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Albert Hill WMC160 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chesnut Street Car Park510 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station600 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME7.8 km (4.9 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL56.9 km (35 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Denmark Street Surgery Good Oct 2016860 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy860 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalDarlington Memorial Hospital Good Jun 20261.4 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hundens Park Good Mar 2021690 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary890 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM380 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,470 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5.8 ha390 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,370 m²180 m
Playing fieldNorth End Recreation Ground 8.9 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Arnold Road Allotments 1.7 ha580 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 9.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Skerne Bridge, a listed building (Grade I), 530 m (0.3 miles) west. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Skerne BridgeListed building, Grade I530 m (0.3 miles) west
Goods Shed East South East of North Road StationListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) west
Central School AnnexeListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) south-west
North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)Listed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) west
South Park, DarlingtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Landscape at Cummins Engine Factory, DarlingtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sugar HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Geneva WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Hutton PlantationWood3 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Elly HillHill3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Ellyhill WoodWood3.1 km (2 miles) north-east
Hell KettlesLake or reservoir4.8 km (3 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 641317
55 to 592812
Under 55719

41 of the street's 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 29 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Darlington: see them on the Darlington page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Gurney Pease AcademyPrimary2–11250 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Darlington College16 plus16–99380 m No published inspection None published
Northwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Corporation Road Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Borough Road Nursery SchoolNursery2–5940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aidan's Church of England AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.6 (40.0 in 2025 and 35.5 in 2024); 41.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
Springfield AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Haughton AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.3 (38.0 in 2025 and 39.8 in 2024); 47.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
Heathfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
George Dent Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Reid Street Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
St Bede's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.5 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 340 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Stagecoach Darlington Centre Stage DL1 1LA Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 340 m
Darlington College Childcare Centre DL1 1DR Full day care 53 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 380 m
Big Kids Little Kids Nursery and out of School Club DL1 1QU Full day care 104 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 770 m (0.5 miles)
Eastbourne Pre-School DL1 1LJ Full day care 24 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 910 m (0.6 miles)
Secret Garden (Darlington) Limited at Springfield Primary DL1 2AN Out-of-school day care 18 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Broadway Daycare DL1 1EJ Full day care 55 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Stagecoach Darlington DL1 5RP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
First Class Learning Darlington DL1 5RF Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Kip McGrath Darlington DL1 5SZ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Secret Garden Day Nursery DL1 2DF Full day care 40 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 42 childminders and 6 home childcarers (nannies) in Darlington. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 14 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
D A General Store DL1 2NRRetailers - other70 m4 Good10 Mar 2026
Gelato Tutti DL1 2UPFarmers/growers160 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Wineomania Ltd DL1 2NWRetailers - other190 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
I Dragon DL1 2NXTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good23 Oct 2025
P And V Bakers DL1 2PAManufacturers/packers280 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Sep 2026
Kirkstall Commerce DL1 1LBRetailers - other290 mAwaiting inspection
Albert Hill Club & Institute DL1 2LZPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
The Phoenix Store DL1 2LPTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good1 Jul 2025
China Cottage DL1 2LPTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Fresh The Meal Prep Co Limited DL1 2PBTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good11 Jul 2025
Cygnet Health Care Ltd DL1 2LNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good8 Nov 2023
Ibex Bouldering DL1 1LERetailers - other350 mExempt
Monk Craft Beer DL1 1LERetailers - other350 mAwaiting inspection
Central Park Catering DL1 1DRSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Darlington College Child Care Centre DL1 1DRSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

108 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Anti-social behaviour22
Criminal damage and arson19
Vehicle crime12
Other theft4
Public order3
Burglary2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Engine House Lane (22); On or near Prescott Street (18); On or near The Sidings (16); On or near Lucknow Street (16); On or near Killinghall Street (13).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 4 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist. 17% happened in the dark, and 17% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202220
202311
202421
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
2 Apr 2025 13:10 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
9 Jul 2024 13:30 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
5 Apr 2024 08:40 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
8 Apr 2023 10:20 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 Oct 2022 06:37 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B6279, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
28 Jun 2022 15:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B6279, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 877 residents in 407 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3540
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented39%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Monk Craft Beer (retailers - other, DL1 1LE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 7 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings P And V Bakers (manufacturers/packers, DL1 2PA) re-inspected, still 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 29 September 2026) found 31 October 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • DL1 2NR: 38 addresses
  • DL1 2LU: 5 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • DL1 2LX: 2 addresses of 52 in the postcode
  • DL1 2HL: 1 address of 41 in the postcode
  • DL1 2LY: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
  • DL1 2NP: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lucknow Street · Vulcan Street · Killinghall Street · Bowes Court · Kirkby Close · Edward Street · Dodsworth Street · Prescott Street · York Street · St James Court · Dodsworth Street · Prescott Street

All the streets in DL1 and across Darlington.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.