neighbourhood in Apeldoorn
Bosgebied Loenen
790 residents · postal code 7371 · Part of Loenen en omgeving, Apeldoorn
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
A 10.0 for quiet & nature is rare, and in Bosgebied Loenen there is plenty behind it: nearly ninety per cent of the surroundings within three hundred metres is green, the tree canopy is more than four times as dense as the national one, noise exposure is eleven decibels below the median and twenty-six people live per square kilometre.
The flip side sits in the families pillar, which stalls at a 2.9. The primary school is more than a kilometre and a half away and the share of children is small — two components that together make up almost half that pillar.
The wealth & income pillar reaches a 9.5, with property values far above the national median. Vandalism is the only crime type here well above the middle.
- no. 4,204 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 36 of 87 in Apeldoorn
How Bosgebied Loenen scores
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Is Bosgebied Loenen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bosgebied Loenen comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 35 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 Loenen has strikingly few children under 15: 8%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6537%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
26 — 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 Loenen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bosgebied Loenen comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bosgebied Loenen?
In Bosgebied Loenen the police recorded 35 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Loenen calculated?
Bosgebied Loenen scores 7.6 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 Bosgebied Loenen 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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