neighbourhood in Apeldoorn
Spainkbos
1,245 residents · postal code 7314 · Part of Noord, Apeldoorn
Everything close by, little to spend
The number of reported offences in Spainkbos is below the national middle, but one type deviates sharply: burglary comes to more than five times the median. Violence, by contrast, is at less than half of it. For residents that is a concrete distinction — the risk is at the home, not on the street, and it explains why the safety score stalls at 6.8 despite a low total.
Nearly four in ten residents are 65 or older and more than half of households consist of one person. Even so, the primary school four hundred metres away still yields a 7.3 for families; that pillar measures distance, not age.
The tree canopy here is more than two and a half times as dense as the national one.
- no. 3,117 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 20 of 87 in Apeldoorn
How Spainkbos scores
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Is Spainkbos a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spainkbos comes out at 23 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, 40 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
Spainkbos has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 37%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+37%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,745 — 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 Spainkbos a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spainkbos comes out at 23 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 Spainkbos?
In Spainkbos the police recorded 40 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Spainkbos calculated?
Spainkbos scores 8.2 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 Spainkbos 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Apeldoorn.
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