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.

Last 12 published months

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

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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.

Where records cluster in DL6

Published street-crime records in DL6, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

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.

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

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Police forces

DL6's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by North Yorkshire Police (99.5%), Durham Constabulary (0.3%) and South Yorkshire Police (0.3%).

Postcode sectors in DL6

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
DL6 1 766
DL6 2 260
DL6 3 126

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

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%.

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.

YearAll 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 DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
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.

Show the 9 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Alverton Primary School Primary Community school
Appleton Wiske Community Primary School Primary Community school
Brompton Community Primary School Primary Community school
Great Smeaton Academy Primary School Primary Academy converter
Mill Hill Primary School Primary Academy converter
Oakbridge Church of England Primary School Primary Free schools
Osmotherley Primary School Primary Academy converter
Northallerton School & Sixth Form College Secondary Academy sponsor led
Hambleton/Richmondshire Pupil Referral Service – Pupil referral unit

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

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 bandPostcodes
High32
Medium17
Low52
Very low0

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.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit48.5%55.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)71.5%80.1%

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CrimeMapsUK. DL6 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/dl6/

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