Park West
WardSouth Darlington. About 4,455 people in 2.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 9% of people in Park West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Park West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Park West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Park West at a rate of 92.9 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, 48 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Park West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (143), violence and sexual offences (132) and other crime (88).
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 Park West alone. See Darlington
Park West in brief
Park West had 4,262 usual residents at the census.
About 9% of people in Park West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Park West, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Park West, 1.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.