neighbourhood in Elburg
’t Harde Centrum
2,170 residents · postal code 8084 · Part of 't Harde, Elburg
Everything close by, little to spend
In ’t Harde Centrum the supermarket, the GP, the primary school and a restaurant are all four within four hundred metres, and the station a kilometre and a half away. That is where the 9.7 for amenities comes from, a figure only five hundred neighbourhoods in the country reach.
The wealth & income pillar lags at 4.1, and here the components do point the same way: property value stands a good fifth below the national median, the share of high incomes at a little over half the national figure, and the low-income bracket sits above it. The social assistance rate, by contrast, barely deviates — so this is not a neighbourhood with a large group at the bottom, but one with a thin top.
On safety the crime total is a third below the national median and theft, burglary and criminal damage all three stay under it; violence lands exactly on the national middle.
The 5.7 for quiet & nature fits a dense tree canopy but also the over five thousand people living on every square kilometre, and the absence of water.
- no. 2,368 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 20 in Elburg
How ’t Harde Centrum scores
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Is ’t Harde Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, ’t Harde Centrum comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: ’t Harde Centrum 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, 37 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 Harde Centrum has strikingly few residents aged 45 to 65: 21%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,539 — 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 ’t Harde Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, ’t Harde Centrum comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: ’t Harde Centrum 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 Harde Centrum?
In ’t Harde Centrum the police recorded 37 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Harde Centrum calculated?
’t Harde Centrum 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 ’t Harde Centrum 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 Elburg.
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