Hamilton Drive Darlington

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (DL1), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 10414197.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £293,750 across 2 sales.
  • 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: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 5).
  • Flood: 4 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: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Albert Road, is 260 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 24 times (90 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A1150, carries 16,383 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Darlington costs £2,494 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is North Road (Darlington), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 62 to 63 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whinfield Medical Practice, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 96% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 32 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20222£293,750£272,500£315,000
20211£245,000£245,000£245,000
20151£215,000£215,000£215,000
20142£201,250£174,500£228,000
20122£241,500£218,000£265,000
20111£205,000£205,000£205,000
20071£209,000£209,000£209,000
20063£204,000£150,000£225,000
20051£189,950£189,950£189,950
20041£260,000£260,000£260,000
20033£165,000£152,950£183,000
20012£100,000£93,000£107,000
All 39 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jul 20121 DL1 3TSDetached£265,000
1 Sep 20041 DL1 3TSDetached£260,000
30 Nov 19951 DL1 3TSDetached£107,950New build.
29 Nov 19962 DL1 3TSDetached£97,950New build.
23 Aug 19963 DL1 3TSDetached£98,455New build.
20 Jan 20004 DL1 3TSDetached£93,000
29 Nov 19964 DL1 3TSDetached£91,950New build.
4 Jun 20215 DL1 3TSDetached£245,000
2 Dec 20115 DL1 3TSDetached£205,000
21 Jul 20065 DL1 3TSDetached£204,000
26 May 20065 DL1 3TSDetached£150,000
29 Aug 20035 DL1 3TSDetached£152,950
29 Nov 19965 DL1 3TSDetached£91,950New build.
25 Sep 20156 DL1 3TSDetached£215,000
16 Aug 19966 DL1 3TSDetached£76,950New build.
2 Dec 20037 DL1 3TSDetached£183,000
13 Sep 19967 DL1 3TSDetached£97,500New build.
7 Oct 20058 DL1 3TSDetached£189,950
19 Nov 19998 DL1 3TSDetached£79,000
17 May 19968 DL1 3TSDetached£84,500New build.
31 May 199610 DL1 3TSDetached£69,500New build.
9 Oct 199612 DL1 3TSDetached£84,500New build.
26 Jun 199814 DL1 3TSDetached£106,950New build.
12 Dec 201416 DL1 3TSDetached£174,500
26 Sep 199716 DL1 3TSDetached£87,950New build.
5 Sep 201418 DL1 3TSDetached£228,000
22 Jun 201218 DL1 3TSDetached£218,000
1 Jul 199718 DL1 3TSDetached£98,950New build.
31 Aug 202220 DL1 3TSDetached£315,000
19 Oct 200620 DL1 3TSDetached£225,000
10 Feb 200320 DL1 3TSDetached£165,000
15 Jul 199720 DL1 3TSDetached£113,500New build.
2 Mar 200122 DL1 3TSDetached£93,000
19 Dec 199722 DL1 3TSDetached£89,950New build.
1 Jun 200124 DL1 3TSDetached£107,000
18 Jun 199824 DL1 3TSDetached£101,950New build.
24 Aug 202226 DL1 3TSDetached£272,500
7 Dec 200726 DL1 3TSDetached£209,000
27 Mar 199826 DL1 3TSDetached£102,950New build.

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 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 125 m². Most common: House, detached (10). Built: 1996-2002 (9); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,849 kWh of it on average in 2024, 31% more than the district's 10,586 kWh, and 3,236 kWh of electricity, 16% more than the district's 2,798 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DL1 3TS162,546 kWh 1713,641 kWh
DL1 3TB313,270 kWh 3113,285 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 C (30% of about 470 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: none.
  • 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.

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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Rise Carr, Darlington / CLNR EES3-1 Battery storage 2.5 MW Operational Jun 2014 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Moor House Wind Farm Darlington 11/00160/FUL Wind 6 turbines 12 MW Operational Dec 2017 3.8 km (2.3 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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 3TSnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 3 unlikely
DL1 3TBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 24 times, for 90 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Tees, Skerne, Tributary of, Trib of the River Skerne.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Mayfair Road Cso Northumbrian Water River Tees 3 1 810 m (0.5 miles)
Harrowgate Hill Sewage Ps Northumbrian Water Skerne, Tributary of 9 23 840 m (0.5 miles)
Whessoe Sps Northumbrian Water Trib of the River Skerne 12 67 870 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

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 260 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Albert Road Off North Road, Darlington, County Durham Not recorded Not recorded 260 m
Springfield Works Pendleton Road, Darlington, County Durham 1975 to 1981 Inert 380 m

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 18 addresses are between 62 m and 63 m above sea level (63 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 3TB100%100%100%0%
DL1 3TS100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 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 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Darlington 2.8 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Dinsdale 88,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Monarch Green Harrowgate Hill170 m
Car parksChesnut Street Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL55.3 km (34 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whinfield Medical Practice Good May 2019760 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery820 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalDarlington Memorial Hospital Good Jun 20262.8 km (1.7 miles)
Care homes8 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Springfield Care Home Limited Good Aug 2026450 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM740 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 510 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.5 ha120 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Salters Lane North Allotments 1.5 ha270 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hutton PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Ellyhill WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Elly HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Skerningham PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Foxhill WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Old Mill RaceLake or reservoir5 km (3.1 miles) north

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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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
55 to 5930
Under 551518

3 of the street's 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, 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), 4 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
St Bede's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11300 m 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)
Harrowgate Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 26% in 2023)
Springfield AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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 AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 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
Whinfield Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
Longfield AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 39.8 (42.8 in 2025 and 43.6 in 2024); 33.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
Northwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 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)
Gurney Pease AcademyPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) 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)
Red Hall Primary SchoolPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 25% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 26% in 2024 and 39% 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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 820 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Play Hut DL1 3BL Full day care 69 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Lowson Street Pre-School DL3 0EY Sessional day care 30 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Secret Garden (Darlington) Limited at Springfield Primary DL1 2AN Out-of-school day care 18 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Sports Camps DL3 0HT Childcare on non-domestic premises (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 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 4 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
Loolie Cakes DL1 3TSOther catering premises70 mExempt
St Bedes Catholic Primary School DL1 3ESSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
One Stop DL1 3EWRetailers - other370 m5 Very good18 Jul 2023
Salvation Army Church DL1 3EWOther catering premises370 m5 Very good3 Nov 2025
Harrowgate Club & Institute DL1 3DTPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good27 Jan 2023
Springfield Care Home DL1 2QAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Apr 2026

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.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour22
Violence and sexual offences4
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sports/Recreation Area (19); On or near Beauly Drive (6); On or near Oakwood Drive (4); On or near Tayport Close (1); On or near Largo Gardens (1).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a motorcyclist. 100% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
6 Jan 2023 07:45 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights off

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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A1150 between A167 North Road and A66/A1150 Roundabout, with 16,383 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 280 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A1150 A167 North Road to A66/A1150 Roundabout 16,383 estimated; counted 2023 6% 280 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 302 residents in 114 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)96%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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Postcodes on this street

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

  • DL1 3TS: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • DL1 3TB: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Chaplehope Close · Beauly Drive · Helmsdale Close · Leven Gardens · Largo Gardens · Oakwood Drive · Green Lane · Crail Gardens · Stirling Grove · Whitebridge Drive · Berriedale Drive · Anstruther Drive

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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.