neighbourhood in Beekdaelen
Schimmert
2,285 residents · postal code 6333 · Part of Schimmert, Beekdaelen
Safe, but few children
Schimmert is quiet. The sound level is far below the national median and few people live here per square kilometre, yet the quiet & nature pillar still gets no further than 5.8. The reason lies in the other half of that pillar: the tree canopy does not even reach half of the national middle and there is no open water.
The 9.7 for safety comes from a thin file. Violence, burglary and vandalism are each at a fraction of the national middle, and property crime is below it too. At this population size each type amounts to a handful of records, and the figure says no more than that.
At 5.7 families is the weakest pillar, right alongside quiet & nature, even though the primary school is around the corner. So it lies in who lives here: almost a third of residents are 65 or over and the share of children stays below the national middle.
- no. 2,083 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 28 in Beekdaelen
How Schimmert scores
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Is Schimmert a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schimmert comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schimmert is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 43 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
Schimmert has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
610 — 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 Schimmert a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schimmert comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schimmert is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Schimmert?
In Schimmert the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Schimmert calculated?
Schimmert scores 8.8 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 Schimmert 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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