neighbourhood in Epe
Heggerenk
1,720 residents · postal code 8171 · Part of Vaassen, Epe
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Heggerenk is a neighbourhood without downward outliers: the lowest score is 5.4 and the highest 9.5. That makes the 8.3 overall an honest summary, which is far from always the case.
That 9.5 for safety rests on property offences staying at a bit over forty per cent of the national middle and burglaries at a fraction of it; only vandalism occurs about as often here as elsewhere.
Wealth & income is the most mixed. Vacancy is close to zero, social assistance runs above the national middle but not spectacularly, and the share of lower incomes sits near the median. What explains the 5.4 is the share of higher incomes, five points under the national figure, combined with a property value staying just below it. The station is eleven kilometres away; everything needed daily is within a kilometre.
- no. 2,948 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 28 in Epe
How Heggerenk scores
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Is Heggerenk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Heggerenk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Heggerenk 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, 25 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 Heggerenk looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,882 — 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 Heggerenk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Heggerenk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Heggerenk 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 Heggerenk?
In Heggerenk the police recorded 25 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Heggerenk calculated?
Heggerenk scores 8.3 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 Heggerenk 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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