Darton
TownTown in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Darton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Darton add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Darton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Darton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Darton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Darton at a rate of 59.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 64 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Darton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (374), other crime (185) and anti-social behaviour (181).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Darton was 59.3 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Darton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Darton has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Darton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley 004A | 1,438 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| Barnsley 004B | 1,410 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Barnsley 004C | 1,923 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.7% |
| Barnsley 004D | 2,137 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.5% |
| Barnsley 004E | 1,629 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Barnsley 005A | 1,436 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Barnsley 005B | 1,401 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 005C | 1,441 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.0% |
| Barnsley 005D | 1,491 | 106.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Barnsley 005E | 1,805 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.1% |
Your MP
- Dan JarvisLabourMP for Barnsley North
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Darton1
Middle areas in Darton2
Towns near Darton6
Darton in brief
Darton is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 15,491 people lived in Darton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £222,500 in 2025 across 232 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Darton was £222,500 in 2025.
Darton had 15,016 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Darton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Darton, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.