Hummersknott
Suburb · 3,793 residents
67Good
Good · better than 8 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Affordability scores 84, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 35 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hummersknott
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Is Hummersknott a good place to live?
Hummersknott scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (84) and safety (79).
It scores lowest on food & drink (20).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hummersknott in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hummersknott
Hummersknott is the sort of place where the front gardens are neat, the cars on the drives are a few years old but well kept, and nobody's in a hurry. Semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, most of them owned outright or with a mortgage rather than rented, and that steadiness shows in the demographics too — the median age sits close to 53, well above the national figure, which tells you this is a place people settle into rather than pass through.
For the practical essentials: this is a suburb that scores among the very best in the country on both affordability and safety, which is an unusual pairing worth noticing. A For Sale board on a Hummersknott street is likely to say "semi-detached, freehold, low six figures" — the median house price of £285,000 is barely above the national average, and well ahead of the wider Darlington market it sits in, at odds with Darlington's much lower typical prices locally. Schools follow a similar "solidly good, not spectacular" pattern: Hummersknott Academy and Abbey Infants' School both carry Good Ofsted ratings, and with four schools in total serving a population under four thousand, families aren't short of options within the immediate area. The one flat note in an otherwise strong picture is nightlife, which lags well behind everything else here — this isn't a place with much of an evening scene, and that's worth sitting with if you'd miss one.
Green space is generous relative to how built-up the streets feel — six separate spaces adding up to 25 hectares, more than the national average per head — which shapes the unhurried rhythm of the place: dog walks, gardens, a stroll rather than a destination night out. Crime here is dominated by violence and anti-social behaviour categories, as it is almost everywhere, but the overall rate runs meaningfully lower than the Darlington average, and the five-year trend on safety is holding flat rather than drifting either way. House prices tell the same steady story — barely moving year on year, no boom, no bust, just holding position.