neighbourhood in Dongen
Biezen
3,185 residents · postal code 5103 · Part of Dongen, Dongen
Everything for children close by, and little room
Burglary is virtually absent in Biezen and violence too stays below the national middle; that produces an 8.6 for safety in a neighbourhood where the crime total sits well over a quarter beneath the median. Vandalism is the only category that rises slightly above it, and it carries the least weight.
The 3.7 for quiet & nature is more striking than it looks, because the sound level here is in fact below the national middle. What costs the pillar is the combination of building density, a share of greenery under the median and a thin tree canopy. Quiet, then, is not the same as green, and this score shows the difference.
The amenities pillar stalls at a 5.3 because supermarket and GP both lie just over a kilometre away — precisely the two components that count for the most — and the station nine kilometres out. The primary school, by contrast, is close, and that is the larger part of the 8.8 for families.
- no. 5,680 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 14 in Dongen
How Biezen scores
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Is Biezen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Biezen comes out at 17 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, 61 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 Biezen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,542 — far 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 Biezen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Biezen comes out at 17 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 Biezen?
In Biezen the police recorded 61 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Biezen calculated?
Biezen scores 6.7 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 Biezen 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 Dongen.
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