neighbourhood in Doetinchem
't Hagelkruis
2,395 residents · postal code 7031 · Part of Wehl / Nieuw Wehl, Doetinchem
Safe streets, thinner wallets
A station eight hundred metres away is unusual for a neighbourhood outside the city, and it lifts 't Hagelkruis to a 9.0 for amenities. Everything needed daily is within walking distance.
Three in ten residents are 65 or older and only one in nine is under fifteen. Yet the families pillar comes out at a 6.9, and that is down to the primary school around the corner: school distance carries more weight in that pillar than the share of children. A high families score here mainly means that it could happen, not that it does.
The 4.3 for wealth & income is the only genuinely weak score. The social assistance rate is virtually at the national median, so it comes from property value and from an income distribution in which the highest group is thin and the lowest well represented.
- no. 2,740 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 18 of 76 in Doetinchem
How 't Hagelkruis scores
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Is 't Hagelkruis a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, 't Hagelkruis comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: 't Hagelkruis 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, 35 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
't Hagelkruis has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4516%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,997 — 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 't Hagelkruis a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, 't Hagelkruis comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: 't Hagelkruis 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 't Hagelkruis?
In 't Hagelkruis the police recorded 35 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 't Hagelkruis calculated?
't Hagelkruis scores 8.4 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 't Hagelkruis 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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