Darley Hillside
Suburb · 201 residents
68Good
Good · better than 8 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 35 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 rail or tube station within a short walk
- Affordability scores 73, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Darley Hillside
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Darley Hillside a good place to live?
Darley Hillside scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84) and transport (74).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Darley Hillside in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Darley Hillside
Darley Hillside doesn't give up much at first glance — no crime figures, no school list, no transport count to lean on — and honestly, that's the fairest place to start with you. What's here is a district-level frame from Derbyshire Dales and a set of national and regional comparisons, and not much else, so this is going to be a shorter conversation than usual.
What we can say is that Derbyshire Dales itself sits above the regional norm on housing cost — the district's median house price of £320,000 comfortably clears both the East Midlands median of £235,000 and the national median of £281,000. That's the one solid thread here: whatever Darley Hillside turns out to be street by street, it's part of a district where property carries a premium over its region, closer to the pricier end of the national spread than the cheaper one. Derbyshire Dales is also the kind of place — semi-rural, dales-adjacent — where that premium tends to buy space and setting rather than city convenience, though that's a district-wide pattern, not something I can promise you'll find on any specific road in Darley Hillside itself.
Beyond that, I'd be inventing detail I don't have — schools, stations, green space, crime rates for the locality itself simply aren't in front of me. If you're weighing up a move here, the sensible next step is to pull the same numbers at the exact postcode you're considering, because Derbyshire Dales covers a lot of ground and the character of a hillside hamlet versus a market town within the same district can differ enormously. What I can tell you with confidence is the district you'd be buying into is a pricier-than-average corner of the East Midlands; what I can't yet tell you is what daily life on the ground in Darley Hillside actually feels like.