neighbourhood in Bronckhorst
Verspreide huizen Zelhem
1,955 residents · postal code 7021 · Part of Zelhem, Bronckhorst
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
Green, quiet and safe: Verspreide huizen Zelhem scores a 9.7 for quiet & nature and a 9.3 for safety, with all four offence types below the national middle and burglary all but absent. The tree canopy is almost twice as dense as the national norm.
The bill sits in the distances. Shop, GP and restaurant are kilometres away, which puts amenities at a 3.9, and the primary school is almost two kilometres off, holding families at a 3.8. Two different pillars with the same cause, and for residents it means nearly every errand requires transport.
The 7.8 for wealth & income is largely strong: property values well above the national median, no social assistance and a top income group larger than nationally. Only vacancy is above average, which in scattered open-country building says little about the area as a whole.
- no. 2,935 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 45 in Bronckhorst
How Verspreide huizen Zelhem scores
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Is Verspreide huizen Zelhem a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verspreide huizen Zelhem comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Verspreide huizen Zelhem 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, 39 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 Verspreide huizen Zelhem looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
58 — 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 Zelhem a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verspreide huizen Zelhem comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Verspreide huizen Zelhem 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 Verspreide huizen Zelhem?
In Verspreide huizen Zelhem the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Zelhem calculated?
Verspreide huizen Zelhem scores 8.3 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 Zelhem 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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