Thompson Street West, Darlington house prices

Thompson Street West, Darlington house prices are built from 190 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £73,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +14.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -17.2%.

HM Land Registry190 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jan 2026

The chart tracks the median Thompson Street West, Darlington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Thompson Street West, Darlington is £130,000 in 2019; the lowest is £29,000 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £31,000 to £120,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £68,835, so the real change over the whole record is +78.1% — about +1.94% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +14.3% in cash against -17.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Thompson Street West, Darlington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Thompson Street West, Darlington is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 190 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

A further 13 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Darlington, 41.5% of 59,479 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Darlington at £682 a month as of Jun 2026 — £491 for a one-bedroom home and £758 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £73,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.13% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of DL3, 541 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 146 violent, 9 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 148 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times busier.

Against the 107,799 residents the 2021 census counted in Darlington, that is 5.02 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 107,799 residents in Darlington across 48,915 households. 63.1% of those households own their home and 36.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

17 state and independent schools have a DL3 postcode: 11 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Thompson Street West, Darlington sits below that national figure — -53.3%.

Within Darlington the street ranks 1064 of 1380 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £101,500 (-27.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £993 per square metre, across 46 of the 190 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £16,600 to £195,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Thompson Street West, Darlington sits in Darlington, in the North East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Darlington at 5.3 times median local earnings of £33,840 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets nearby

• Coniscliffe Road£225,000 median
• Woodland Road£99,950 median
• Craig Street£63,000 median
• Greenbank Road£74,000 median
• Longfield Road£69,975 median
• Glaisdale Court£245,000 median
• Cumberland Street£47,000 median
• Beaconsfield Street£49,950 median
• Lansdowne Street£49,750 median
• Darrowby Drive£69,950 median
• Brougham Street£51,000 median
• Eldon Street£38,000 median
• Hartington Way£115,000 median
• Vine Street£80,000 median
• Brinkburn Drive£118,000 median
• Salutation Road£175,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 36 Thompson Street West6 sales
• 80 Thompson Street West5 sales
• 114 Thompson Street West5 sales
• 92 Thompson Street West4 sales
• 132 Thompson Street West4 sales
• 74 Thompson Street West4 sales
• 62 Thompson Street West4 sales
• 120 Thompson Street West4 sales
• 49 Thompson Street West4 sales
• 90 Thompson Street West4 sales
• 144 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 185 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 128 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 38 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 32 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 30 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 199 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 102 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 54 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 52 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 23 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 207 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 126 Thompson Street West3 sales
• 76 Thompson Street West3 sales

Back to Darlington house prices.

What is the average house price in Thompson Street West, Darlington?

The median price paid in Thompson Street West, Darlington across every sale on the register is £73,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Thompson Street West, Darlington?

190 sales are on record for Thompson Street West, Darlington, the most recent completing on 5 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Thompson Street West, Darlington house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +14.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -17.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Thompson Street West, Darlington house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £130,000, set in 2019. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Thompson Street West, Darlington?

£993 per square metre, from the 46 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 5 Jan 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Thompson Street West, Darlington house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.