neighbourhood in Epe
Epe Centrum
1,725 residents · postal code 8162 · Part of Epe, Epe
Everything close by, safety lags
Epe Centrum has everything within eight hundred metres except the station, which is more than ten kilometres away — and still reaches 8.6 for amenities. The safety pillar pays the bill with a 4.2: property offences run at double the national middle here and violence comes out well above it too. The picture of a retail core where only things disappear does not hold here.
What keeps the families pillar at 6.6 while only a tenth of residents are under fifteen is the primary school five hundred metres away. More than four in ten residents here are 65 or older.
The wealth figures are broadly favourable — property value above the median, social assistance below it — with one exception: vacancy runs at almost double the national figure.
- no. 6,336 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 28 in Epe
How Epe Centrum scores
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Is Epe Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Epe Centrum comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Epe Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 122 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
Epe Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4515%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+41%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,782 — 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 Epe Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Epe Centrum comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Epe Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Epe Centrum?
In Epe Centrum the police recorded 122 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Epe Centrum calculated?
Epe Centrum scores 6.4 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 Epe 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Epe
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Epe.