neighbourhood in Doetinchem
Buitengebied - Het Broek
280 residents · postal code 7031 · Part of Wehl / Nieuw Wehl, Doetinchem
Safe, but few children
Buitengebied - Het Broek has ninety residents per square kilometre, which would lead you to expect a top score for quiet & nature. It settles at 6.2. The low density is there; the tree canopy is not, reaching barely above four per cent against almost nine nationally. The noise level sits exactly on the Dutch middle and open water is entirely absent. Space and silence are not the same thing as nature here.
Almost half the households have children, but the primary school is more than two kilometres away and that pushes the families pillar down to 5.0. With around two hundred and eighty residents, every report stands for more than three per thousand, so the offence rate landing right on the national median says less here than it appears to.
- no. 6,414 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 42 of 76 in Doetinchem
How Buitengebied - Het Broek scores
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Is Buitengebied - Het Broek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buitengebied - Het Broek comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 7 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
Buitengebied - Het Broek has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
90 — 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 Buitengebied - Het Broek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buitengebied - Het Broek comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Buitengebied - Het Broek?
In Buitengebied - Het Broek the police recorded 7 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Buitengebied - Het Broek calculated?
Buitengebied - Het Broek scores 6.3 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 Buitengebied - Het Broek 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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