neighbourhood in Best
Dijkstraten
1,790 residents · postal code 5684 · Part of Centrum, Best
Everything close by, little space
Dijkstraten is new: almost all homes date from after 2000, and the population matches. Nearly a quarter of residents are under fifteen and only one in ten is 65 or older, exactly the reverse of the national picture. The families pillar reaches 8.5.
The price shows up in quiet & nature: a 2.9, with noise more than five decibels above the national median. That is by some distance the weakest pillar here, and the green in the immediate surroundings lags too.
The safety figure is missing, so the overall score of 7.6 rests on four pillars. For anyone moving here that means: a new-build neighbourhood with the station eight hundred metres away, and no recorded-crime figure to go on.
- no. 4,105 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 18 in Best
How Dijkstraten scores
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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
Dijkstraten has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4540%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,135 — 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
How is the grade for Dijkstraten calculated?
Dijkstraten scores 7.6 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 Dijkstraten 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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