neighbourhood in Doetinchem
Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord
2,210 residents · postal code 7011 · Part of Gaanderen, Doetinchem
Safe streets, thinner wallets
A station nine hundred metres away in a neighbourhood built at village density: that is the most striking combination in Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord, and the reason the amenities pillar reaches a 7.4 despite its location.
The quiet & nature pillar earns a 7.9 right across the board: greenery in the immediate surroundings is well above the national middle, the tree canopy too, and the noise level clearly below it.
The 3.9 for wealth & income is the counterweight and it is broad: low property values, a thin top income group, a wide bottom one and social assistance above the middle. Only vacancy is absent. Among offences, vandalism is the only type above the national middle; violence is far below it, and that is the heaviest component of this pillar — hence the 8.2 for safety coming out higher than the total reporting figure alone would justify.
- no. 4,354 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 30 of 76 in Doetinchem
How Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord scores
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Is Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 42 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 Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,074 — 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 Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord?
In Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord the police recorded 42 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord calculated?
Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord scores 7.5 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 Het Hartger / De Elshof - noord 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Doetinchem.
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