neighbourhood in Beesel
Beesel
2,080 residents · postal code 5954 · Part of Beesel, Beesel
Safe, but few children
The supermarket in Beesel is more than three kilometres away — a distance you rarely see in the Netherlands, and it holds the amenities score at 6.0 even though the GP and a restaurant are close by.
Against that stands the quiet side. With fewer than two thousand people per square kilometre and ambient noise almost eight decibels below the national median, quiet & nature comes out at 8.3.
The families score of 5.6 does not come from school distance here: the primary school is seven hundred metres away. What holds the figure down is the population itself — the share of children under fifteen is below the national middle and the share of over-65s above it. Among the offences, violence and vandalism sit exactly on the national median; only burglary and property crime stay clearly below.
- no. 3,452 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 8 in Beesel
How Beesel scores
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Is Beesel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Beesel comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Beesel 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, 38 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 Beesel looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,110 — 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 Beesel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Beesel comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Beesel 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 Beesel?
In Beesel the police recorded 38 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 Beesel calculated?
Beesel scores 8.0 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 Beesel 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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