neighbourhood in Coevorden

Dalen

3,235 residents · postal code 7751 · Part of Dalen, Coevorden

Top 32% in the Netherlands

Safe, but few children

Dalen scores well on safety and weakly on families, and the second outcome has a cause that has nothing to do with distance. The primary school is eight hundred metres away, so that part of the pillar is fine; what depresses the score is the share of children. A third of residents are 65 or over and fewer than an eighth are under fifteen.

The 8.8 for safety rests on a low violence rate, roughly a fifth of the national median, plus property crime and vandalism well below it. Only burglary is above the national middle.

The wealth pillar shows a neighbourhood balancing right on the average: incomes and social assistance sit at or close to the national level, and vacancy on it. What pushes the pillar down to 5.0 is property value, which stays well below the median and counts by far the heaviest in this model.

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no. 4 of 61 in Coevorden

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Is Dalen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Dalen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dalen 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.

Total crime

13.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

5.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 52 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.7 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

5.4 km

Café

3.9 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 349,000

Welfare recipients

9.3 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

78%

Social housing

16%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

84%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

1,259 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

60%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

404

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.0 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.8 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

5.6 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Dalen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4516%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+33%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,259 — 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 Dalen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Dalen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dalen 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 Dalen?

In Dalen the police recorded 52 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 Dalen calculated?

Dalen scores 7.7 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 Dalen 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.