neighbourhood in Apeldoorn
Bosgebied Hoog Soeren
50 residents · postal code 7346 · Part of Hoog Soeren en Radio Kootwijk, Apeldoorn
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
Bosgebied Hoog Soeren has around fifty residents in an area where almost everything within three hundred metres is green and the tree canopy is more than five times as dense as the national one. That yields a 9.9 for quiet & nature, and noise exposure nearly nine decibels below the median confirms it.
The price is access. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all more than six kilometres away, and that school distance is close to a third of the families pillar — hence a 2.5, among the lowest in the country.
At this size the crime figures per thousand residents say little: a handful of reports is all it takes. Income data are not published here, because too few households are involved.
- no. 11,663 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 78 of 87 in Apeldoorn
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Bosgebied Hoog Soeren scores
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Is Bosgebied Hoog Soeren a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bosgebied Hoog Soeren comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bosgebied Hoog Soeren is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 14 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
Bosgebied Hoog Soeren has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 43%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–152%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4516%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+43%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2 — 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 Bosgebied Hoog Soeren a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bosgebied Hoog Soeren comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bosgebied Hoog Soeren is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Bosgebied Hoog Soeren?
In Bosgebied Hoog Soeren the police recorded 14 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (50 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 Bosgebied Hoog Soeren calculated?
Bosgebied Hoog Soeren scores 3.3 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 Bosgebied Hoog Soeren 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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