neighbourhood in Altena
Dussen
2,545 residents · postal code 4271 · Part of Dussen, Altena
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Dussen is quiet and green: three quarters of the surroundings are green and noise levels are considerably below the national median. Even so, quiet & nature stops at 7.0 rather than higher, and the brake is the tree canopy, which is thinner here than is usual nationally.
On amenities Dussen reaches 5.8, and that score is held down by one thing: the nearest railway station is fifteen kilometres away. Supermarket, doctor, restaurant and primary school are all within seven hundred metres, so for daily life distance is no problem here; for commuters it is.
Wealth & income gets no further than 5.5. Property values are just below the national midpoint and incomes barely deviate, but the social assistance rate is double the average.
- no. 5,064 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 58 in Altena
How Dussen scores
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Is Dussen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dussen comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dussen 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, 52 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
The age profile of Dussen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,423 — far less 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 Dussen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dussen comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dussen 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 Dussen?
In Dussen the police recorded 52 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Dussen calculated?
Dussen scores 7.1 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 Dussen 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 Altena
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Altena.
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