neighbourhood in Druten
Deest
1,735 residents · postal code 6653 · Part of Deest, Druten
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Deest scores 3.0 overall while no single pillar drops below 3.7. That is possible because the total is not an average of the five: four of them stay under six here, and without an upward outlier there is nothing left to offset that.
Amenities is the weakest pillar, and the reason is the GP. That is more than three kilometres away, the supermarket more than two, and together those two carry over forty per cent of the score. The restaurant around the corner changes little.
What makes the offence picture interesting is its distribution. The total stays below the national median, but violence runs well above it and it is theft that is rare here — the reverse of what you would expect in a village along the river. Vacancy stands out too: more than twice the national middle.
- no. 12,285 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 26 in Druten
How Deest scores
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Is Deest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Deest comes out at 21 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, 43 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 Deest looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,250 — around the 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 Deest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Deest comes out at 21 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 Deest?
In Deest the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Deest calculated?
Deest scores 3.0 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 Deest 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 Druten.
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