neighbourhood in Berkelland
Verspreide huizen Borculo
735 residents · postal code 7271 · Part of Borculo, Berkelland
Room to spare, amenities further off
The 4.2 for safety in Verspreide huizen Borculo is remarkable for an open-country area, and it sits in two categories. Violence and vandalism are reported more than three times as often here as nationally, while burglary and theft are normal to low. That said, this neighbourhood has only a few hundred residents, so the per-thousand figure swings sharply on a handful of reports; the pattern is clear, the precision is not.
Against that stands a 9.8 for quiet & nature, and it is beyond dispute: plenty of greenery, a dense tree canopy, little noise and hardly any building.
The 5.8 for wealth & income is mixed. Property values are well above the national median, but more households are on a low income than average, fewer on a high one, and both social assistance and vacancy are above the national level. What is owned here is worth more than the incomes suggest.
- no. 9,227 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 58 of 71 in Berkelland
How Verspreide huizen Borculo scores
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Is Verspreide huizen Borculo a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verspreide huizen Borculo comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Verspreide huizen Borculo 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, 49 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
Verspreide huizen Borculo has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
59 — 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 Verspreide huizen Borculo a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verspreide huizen Borculo comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Verspreide huizen Borculo 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 Verspreide huizen Borculo?
In Verspreide huizen Borculo the police recorded 49 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Verspreide huizen Borculo calculated?
Verspreide huizen Borculo scores 4.7 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 Verspreide huizen Borculo 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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