neighbourhood in Aalten
Aalten-kern West
2,070 residents · postal code 7122 · Part of Aalten Kern, Aalten
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Few neighbourhoods in the Netherlands record as few offences as Aalten-kern West: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism all sit far below the national median, together good for a 9.9 on safety.
The contrast with wealth & income is stark. That stands at 3.8, and every component points the same way: the top income group is less than half as wide as nationally, the bottom one wider, property value stays far below the Dutch middle and there is nearly twice as much social assistance as in the average neighbourhood.
That those two go together is the real story here: low incomes and low crime figures have nothing to do with one another in this neighbourhood. The railway station is a kilometre away and supermarket, school and GP are around the corner, which makes for a compact, complete village core.
- no. 1,574 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 29 in Aalten
How Aalten-kern West scores
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Is Aalten-kern West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aalten-kern West comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Aalten-kern West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 22 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 West has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,867 — 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 West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aalten-kern West comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Aalten-kern West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Aalten-kern West?
In Aalten-kern West the police recorded 22 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 West calculated?
Aalten-kern West scores 9.1 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 West 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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