neighbourhood in Arnhem
Elden
2,985 residents · postal code 6842 · Part of Elden, Arnhem
Good for children, with a safety question
Elden is thinly built up, with fewer than two thousand residents per square kilometre, and still manages only a 3.3 for safety. All four types of offence are above the national median, and it is violence above all that stands out: more than double the national figure, in the heaviest-weighted category of that pillar.
The 9.3 for families stands apart from that. The primary school is five hundred metres away and the share of households with children is above the national level, so both parts of that pillar contribute.
What you give up here is the supermarket. It is nearly two kilometres away, while GP, school and restaurant are all close by. For a daily shop that is a drive, not a walk.
- no. 5,082 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 23 of 81 in Arnhem
How Elden scores
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Is Elden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Elden comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Elden 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, 169 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 Elden looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,651 — 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 Elden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Elden comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Elden 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 Elden?
In Elden the police recorded 169 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 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 Elden calculated?
Elden scores 7.1 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 Elden 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 Arnhem.
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