neighbourhood in Deventer
Dorp Bathmen
4,590 residents · postal code 7437 · Part of Bathmen, Deventer
Safe streets, thinner wallets
A 9.5 overall, and not a single pillar below 6.4: Dorp Bathmen scores at least respectably everywhere. That is clearest among the offences. Violence, theft and vandalism all three lie well below the national median; the exception is burglary, which occurs more often here than is usual nationally and is the one item working against the score.
At 6.4, wealth & income is the lowest of the five, and that is not down to poverty: social assistance and vacancy stay below the national level and property value is slightly above it. It is the income distribution that sits exactly on the national median; the middle group is broad here.
What you give up is the train, more than six kilometres away, and a noise level that rises above the median despite three quarters greenery within three hundred metres. Quiet and green are not the same thing here.
- no. 919 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 65 in Deventer
How Dorp Bathmen scores
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Is Dorp Bathmen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp Bathmen comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorp Bathmen 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, 63 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
Dorp Bathmen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,331 — 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 Dorp Bathmen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp Bathmen comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorp Bathmen 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 Dorp Bathmen?
In Dorp Bathmen the police recorded 63 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 Dorp Bathmen calculated?
Dorp Bathmen scores 9.5 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 Dorp Bathmen 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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