neighbourhood in Ede
Halderbrink
4,255 residents · postal code 6721 · Part of Bennekom, Ede
Safe, but not spacious
The crime rate in Halderbrink is less than half the national median, and that yields a 9.2 for safety. One type falls outside it: burglary is more than twice above the median. That is the pattern of a quiet, prosperous edge — little happens, and what happens is aimed at homes.
Quiet & nature still stalls at a 5.0. Trees are well above the median, but the noise level is clearly above it and open water is absent. Greenery here is not the same as silence.
Amenities come to a 6.8 because the supermarket and the GP are both more than a kilometre away, while the primary school is around the corner. For the daily shop you take the bike here; for school you do not.
- no. 2,405 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 19 of 66 in Ede
How Halderbrink scores
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Is Halderbrink a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Halderbrink comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Halderbrink 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, 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 Halderbrink looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,208 — 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 Halderbrink a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Halderbrink comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Halderbrink 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 Halderbrink?
In Halderbrink the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Halderbrink calculated?
Halderbrink scores 8.6 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 Halderbrink 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Ede
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Ede.