neighbourhood in De Wolden
De Wijk
2,660 residents · postal code 7957 · Part of De Wijk, De Wolden
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Everything you need day to day is within walking distance in De Wijk — supermarket, GP, school, restaurant. The railway station is almost nine kilometres away: the pattern of a place with its own amenities but no rail link. The 7.3 for amenities comes from the first, the brake on it from the second.
The 8.2 for safety has one crack: burglary is recorded here almost five times as often as nationally, while violence, vandalism and property offences are all below the median.
Wealth & income lags at 4.9: property values are below the national median and the social assistance rate well above it. That the families pillar sticks at 6.0 while the school is around the corner is therefore not down to distance but to who lives here — almost a third of residents are 65 or older.
- no. 4,612 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 39 in De Wolden
How De Wijk scores
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Is De Wijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Wijk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Wijk 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, 43 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
De Wijk has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,857 — 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 De Wijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Wijk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Wijk 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 De Wijk?
In De Wijk the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 De Wijk calculated?
De Wijk scores 7.4 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 De Wijk 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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