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DL6 crime rate and statistics
The DL6 postcode district, in the DL (Darlington) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,152 street-crime records for DL6 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 73.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 74.8 for North Yorkshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,152
Latest month (August 2026)
87
Year-on-year
-8.9%
Month-by-month totals
1170
85
Sep
96
Oct
83
Nov
81
Dec
103
Jan
71
Feb
109
Mar
107
Apr
117
May
110
Jun
103
Jul
87
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
85
October 2025
96
November 2025
83
December 2025
81
January 2026
103
February 2026
71
March 2026
109
April 2026
107
May 2026
117
June 2026
110
July 2026
103
August 2026
87
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
DL6
73.4
North Yorkshire Police
74.8
1,152 records and 15,691 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of DL6 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences37.6%
433 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour22.1%
255 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.1%
105 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft6.8%
78 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order6.0%
69 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting5.5%
63 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary4.5%
52 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Other crime2.3%
26 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in DL6
Records by part of DL6: the south-west 1,402, the west 230, the north-east 50, the east 34, the north 33, the north-west 15, the south 14, the south-east 2.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of DL6's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and DL6's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of DL6 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore DL6 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for DL6 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,666
2022
1,406
2023
1,415
2024
1,302
2025
1,213
2026 (part year)
807
Is DL6 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for DL6 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 96 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 117.
Records here changed by -8.9% on the 12 months before, against +6.2% across the North Yorkshire Police area, the main force here with 99.5% of DL6's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 37.6% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in DL6 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 15,691 Census 2021 residents of DL6.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 7.6% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
28%3
0%4
20%5
30%6
6%7
10%8
2%9
6%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About DL6 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£239,250 (128)
2025
£245,000 (275)
2024
£251,250 (308)
2023
£249,975 (216)
2022
£230,000 (286)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£397,500 (46)
£210,000 (38)
£179,000 (40)
– (4)
2025
£369,000 (94)
£227,952 (96)
£192,500 (75)
£82,750 (10)
2024
£335,000 (129)
£208,998 (82)
£190,000 (91)
£89,475 (6)
2023
£342,000 (91)
£219,950 (65)
£179,500 (52)
£80,000 (8)
2022
£325,000 (108)
£214,975 (92)
£187,750 (82)
– (4)
Schools and colleges
9 open establishments with a postcode in DL6, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
32
Medium
17
Low
52
Very low
0
Broadband
Share of the 664 postcodes in DL6 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
48.5%
55.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
71.5%
80.1%
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