neighbourhood in Aalten
Aalten-kern Centrum
2,315 residents · postal code 7121 · Part of Aalten Kern, Aalten
Everything close by, little to spend
Six hundred metres to the station, four hundred to the GP and the primary school: Aalten-kern Centrum is unusually well connected for a village centre, and that produces a 9.6 for amenities. In the rural Netherlands a station within walking distance is the exception rather than the rule.
The 3.2 for wealth & income stands starkly against that. Property value is around two thirds of the Dutch median, the top income group is thin, the bottom one broad and the social assistance rate almost four times the national one; only vacancy sits exactly at the middle and points nowhere.
More than a third of residents are 65 or over and one in two households consists of one person. So the 8.1 for families is about the short distances, not about the number of children living here.
- no. 5,867 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 20 of 29 in Aalten
How Aalten-kern Centrum scores
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Is Aalten-kern Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aalten-kern Centrum comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 115 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Aalten-kern Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,336 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Aalten-kern Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aalten-kern Centrum comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Aalten-kern Centrum?
In Aalten-kern Centrum the police recorded 115 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Aalten-kern Centrum calculated?
Aalten-kern Centrum scores 6.6 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Aalten-kern Centrum lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Aalten
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Aalten.
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