neighbourhood in Almelo
Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West
1,920 residents · postal code 7602 · Part of Noorderkwartier, Almelo
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
A 9.1 for families in a neighbourhood where 46 percent of households are single-person: that looks contradictory until you see what the score leans on. The primary school is four hundred metres away, and distance to schooling and childcare makes up nearly two thirds of that pillar. Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West scores high there without many children living in it.
The safety score of 4.9 is the opposite of what a busy stretch of town usually gives. Theft, burglary and vandalism all sit roughly on the national middle; violence alone stands out, at more than one and a half times the median, and that is exactly the heaviest-weighted component. Explaining this score with bicycle theft would be wrong.
- no. 8,863 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 32 of 67 in Almelo
How Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West scores
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Is Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West comes out at 29 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, 62 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
Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,599 — 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 Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West comes out at 29 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 Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West?
In Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West the police recorded 62 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West calculated?
Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek West scores 4.9 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 Vriezenveenseweg en omgeving Haghoek 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almelo.
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