neighbourhood in Deventer
Colmschaterenk
2,245 residents · postal code 7422 · Part of Colmschate-Zuid, Deventer
Everything for children close by, and little room
Colmschaterenk earns an 8.5 for families with the primary school four hundred metres away and almost a third of households having children. At the same time the quiet & nature pillar stands at 3.0, and that is not down to density alone: greenery within three hundred metres stays well below the national middle, water is absent and the noise level runs almost seven decibels above it.
The 4.5 for wealth & income is a story about incomes, not houses. Property values sit below the middle, but it is mainly social assistance — more than twice the median — together with few high incomes that sets the figure; vacancy is negligible.
On safety the imbalance stands out. The total offence rate lies above the median, but violence and burglary both fall below it. What remains is property crime, at more than one and a half times the national rate. Over a quarter of residents are above 65, in a housing stock dating almost entirely from before this century.
- no. 8,337 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 41 of 65 in Deventer
How Colmschaterenk scores
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Is Colmschaterenk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Colmschaterenk comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 86 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 Colmschaterenk looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,044 — 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 Colmschaterenk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Colmschaterenk comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Colmschaterenk?
In Colmschaterenk the police recorded 86 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Colmschaterenk calculated?
Colmschaterenk scores 5.2 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 Colmschaterenk 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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