neighbourhood in Apeldoorn

Sluisoord

4,280 residents · postal code 7322 · Part of Noordoost, Apeldoorn

Bottom 50% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

A 9.8 for families next to a 3.5 for wealth & income is the sharpest contrast Sluisoord has to offer. The primary school is four hundred metres away and almost four in ten households have children — together the heaviest components of that pillar.

The wealth & income figure comes mainly from the income side, not from the housing. The number of social assistance benefits per thousand residents is more than seven times the national level here and the share of lower incomes clearly above it, while vacancy is actually below the median. Nothing stands empty here; there is little to spend.

For families that combination means something concrete. The school is close, but the supermarket and the GP are both more than a kilometre away — on the far side for a district of this population.

no. 6,551 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 52 of 87 in Apeldoorn

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Is Sluisoord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Sluisoord comes out at 27 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.

Total crime

26.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

9.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 139 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

1.1 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

2.7 km

Restaurant

1.0 km

Hospital

4.6 km

Café

1.2 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

3.4 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 320,000

Welfare recipients

58.4 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

49%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

44%

Social housing

50%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

70%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

4,099 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,067

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.4 km

Households with children

38%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Sluisoord has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,099 — 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 Sluisoord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Sluisoord comes out at 27 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 Sluisoord?

In Sluisoord the police recorded 139 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Sluisoord calculated?

Sluisoord scores 6.2 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 Sluisoord 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.