neighbourhood in Apeldoorn
Brummelhof
3,420 residents · postal code 7331 · Part of Zuid, Apeldoorn
Everything close by, little space
Brummelhof has every everyday amenity within six hundred metres and still an overall score of 3.7. That is because four of the five pillars fall below the national middle and amenities alone rises far above it.
The crime picture is lopsided. Burglary sits exactly on the national median, but property crime comes to almost double that and both violence and vandalism to more than one and a half times it. So no single type explains this figure; it is the sum.
Within the wealth & income pillar the components point in different directions. Property values are below the Dutch median and the social assistance rate is nearly three times the national middle, but the share of low incomes is barely above it and vacancy is below. A 4.6 here covers four uneven movements, not a general shortfall.
- no. 10,975 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 74 of 87 in Apeldoorn
How Brummelhof scores
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Is Brummelhof a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brummelhof comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Brummelhof 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, 197 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 Brummelhof looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,460 — 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 Brummelhof a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brummelhof comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Brummelhof 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 Brummelhof?
In Brummelhof the police recorded 197 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Brummelhof calculated?
Brummelhof scores 3.7 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 Brummelhof 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 Apeldoorn
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Apeldoorn.
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