North Road
WardCentral Darlington. About 6,369 people in 1.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in North Road live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How North Road compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is North Road safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in North Road at a rate of 204.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 125.2 per 1,000 people across Darlington.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 121 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in North Road.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (333), anti-social behaviour (310) and other crime (158).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Darlington
These figures are published for the whole of Darlington, not for each ward, so they describe all of Darlington and not North Road alone. See Darlington
North Road in brief
North Road had 6,213 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in North Road live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In North Road, 98.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In North Road, 5.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.