neighbourhood in Dalfsen
Westerbouwlanden
1,825 residents · postal code 7711 · Part of Nieuwleusen, Dalfsen
Safe, but everything is a drive away
The nearest railway station is over ten kilometres away, and for Westerbouwlanden that is the figure keeping the amenities pillar below five. Supermarket, GP and school are all within one and a half kilometres; only the railway is entirely absent, and that weighs more heavily than most residents assume.
Beyond that this is a decidedly young neighbourhood. More than nine in ten homes were built after 2000, almost half of households have children and only seven percent of residents are over 65 — a third of the usual national figure. The safety score of 9.7 fits: violence and vandalism sit far below the national median, burglary exactly on it. Property value is above the national middle, and that carries the wealth & income pillar almost single-handedly.
- no. 1,375 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 36 in Dalfsen
How Westerbouwlanden scores
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Is Westerbouwlanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Westerbouwlanden comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Westerbouwlanden 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, 15 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
Westerbouwlanden has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 7%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,451 — 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
Is Westerbouwlanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Westerbouwlanden comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Westerbouwlanden 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 Westerbouwlanden?
In Westerbouwlanden the police recorded 15 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Westerbouwlanden calculated?
Westerbouwlanden scores 9.2 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 Westerbouwlanden 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Dalfsen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Dalfsen.
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