Darton Lane Head
Suburb · 186 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- Affordability scores 82, 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
- Road noise reaches 76% of the area
- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Darton Lane Head
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Darton Lane Head a good place to live?
Darton Lane Head scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82).
It scores lowest on food & drink (30) and health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Darton Lane Head in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Darton Lane Head
Streets here are mostly semi-detached and pebble-dashed, the kind of terrace-into-semi mix you get where a mining village thickened into a suburb without ever quite becoming a town. There's no student churn, no crowd of new-builds pushing prices about — this is a settled, older population going about its business, and it looks it.
The property market tells you plainly what kind of place this is: of the recent sales, semis and detached houses dominate, almost all freehold, and the median sale price of £195,000 sits well under both the regional and national medians. Against Barnsley itself, prices actually run higher — about 22% above the borough's typical figure — so within its own patch this is one of the better-off pockets, even if nationally it's still firmly on the affordable end (the "affordability" grade here is the strongest in the whole profile). Council tax on a Band D property is close to the national average, which fits a place of modest, unremarkable semis rather than anything grander.
The grade pattern is where the honest picture lives. Housing, connectivity, environment and overall standing all come in comfortably respectable — solidly above the middling mark. Schools and health sit lower, a half-step behind the rest, and that's worth sitting with rather than skipping past: this isn't a place currently pulling in families chasing an outstanding primary, and the population's median age of nearly 46 — several years above the national figure — backs that up. It reads as a place people settle into for the long term rather than move to for the school run.