Is Darlington walkable?

This page covers Darlington: 113,000 people.

56/100Updated 29 October 2026 · map data of 27 October 2026

Walking score where people live

46%of Europe lives in lower-scoring places

66thof 118 cities in the United Kingdom on the map, tied with another city

In Darlington, the walk to groceries compares best with Europe: 5 minutes for the typical resident, about typical for Europe. The walk to culture compares least well with Europe: 15 minutes for the typical resident, worse than most of Europe. Easiest to walk: Bank Top (74). Hardest: Branksome (46).

The city at a glance

See Darlington on the map

On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.

The walk to eight daily needs

Minutes on foot for a typical resident.

Need	Typical walk	Compared with Europe	People with one within 20 min
Groceries	5 min	About typical	94%
Food and drink	5 min	About typical	97%
Shops	5 min	About typical	95%
Health	9 min	About typical	90%
School	6 min	About typical	95%
Parks	5 min	Worse than most	97%
Culture	15 min	Worse than most	66%
Public transport	5 min	Worse than most	95%

Compared with the rest of the country

32% of the streets in Darlington are among the most walkable 20% in Great Britain (the United Kingdom without Northern Ireland, which the map scores together with Ireland).

Dashed line: the average in Great Britain (20%).
Streets ranked in Great Britain	Bar	Darlington
Most walkable 20%		32%
Above the middle		18%
Middle 20%		19%
Below the middle		11%
Lowest-scoring 20%		20%

Most walkable and lowest-scoring areas

Click an area name to see it on the map.

Most walkable

Numbers 1 to 5 on the map.
Area	Typical score
Bank Top	74
Hopetown	72
Pierremont	71
Rise Carr	67
Eastbourne	60

Lowest overall score

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score
Branksome	46
Hummersknott	46
Red Hall	48
Skerne Park	49
Haughton Le Skerne	54

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Cities like Darlington

Cities of similar size and score.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Namur	Belgium	117,000	57
Chesterfield	United Kingdom	104,000	56
Forlì	Italy	118,000	56

More cities in the United Kingdom

Stockton-on-Tees Middlesbrough Sunderland Gateshead South Tyneside Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside York Leeds Bradford Wakefield Carlisle

What this page covers

Walkably gives places in Europe a walking score from 0 to 100, based on the walk to eight daily needs and how pleasant the streets are.

This page uses the boundary of Darlington as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 113,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 8,659 street cells with 10,619 buildings in them.

Every number here comes from the same scores as the map. The score runs from 0 to 100. The walk to eight daily needs on real streets makes up 60% of it, and how pleasant the streets are makes up 40%. Each place counts by the people who live there, from census counts: the typical score is the score of where people live. The comparison with Europe counts 466.8 million people. The score uses no data about who lives anywhere: no income, age, origin or other personal data. How the score works.