neighbourhood in Deventer
Dorp Schalkhaar
5,690 residents · postal code 7433 · Part of Schalkhaar, Deventer
Spacious and quiet, without a weak spot
Dorp Schalkhaar gets a 9.1 for quiet and that figure stands on four legs at once: plenty of greenery around the neighbourhood, more tree canopy than is usual nationally, a noise level far below the median and few residents per square kilometre. Usually one component drags such a score down; here that does not happen.
The 7.0 for safety is misleadingly low. The number of registered offences lies well below the national middle and property crime occurs only half as often. What depresses the figure are violence and burglary, which both come out just above the median — across almost six thousand residents that is a matter of a few registrations' difference, but they are the two components that together carry the most weight.
- no. 920 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 65 in Deventer
How Dorp Schalkhaar scores
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Is Dorp Schalkhaar a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp Schalkhaar comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorp Schalkhaar 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, 105 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 Schalkhaar has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,552 — 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 Schalkhaar a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp Schalkhaar comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorp Schalkhaar 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 Schalkhaar?
In Dorp Schalkhaar the police recorded 105 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 Dorp Schalkhaar calculated?
Dorp Schalkhaar 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 Schalkhaar 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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