Darley
WardNorth west Derby. About 17,178 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 5.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 13% of people in Darley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Darley compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Darley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Darley at a rate of 328.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 133.1 per 1,000 people across Derby.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 493 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Darley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,844), other crime (1,180) and shoplifting (794).
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 Derby
These figures are published for the whole of Derby, not for each ward, so they describe all of Derby and not Darley alone. See Derby
Darley in brief
Darley had 16,442 usual residents at the census.
About 13% of people in Darley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Darley, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Darley, 4.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.