neighbourhood in Ermelo

Ermelo - West

6,080 residents · postal code 3853 · Part of Schil rondom het centrum, Ermelo

Top 16% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Ermelo - West is among the ten per cent safest neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. The number of registrations stays well below the national median and violence is rare; that yields a 9.3.

What holds down the 6.4 for amenities is not the supermarket, which is round the corner, but the GP: that is almost two kilometres away, and after the supermarket it is the component that counts heaviest.

Wealth is the mirror image. Property value stays below the Dutch middle, social assistance is two and a half times as common as nationally and earners at the top end are somewhat less common than nationally; only vacancy falls the other way, because almost nothing stands empty. That produces a 5.0. The families score of 8.8 stands apart from that: it comes from the primary school five hundred metres away.

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Is Ermelo - West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ermelo - West comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ermelo - West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

12.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

3.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 87 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

1.9 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

1.2 km

Hospital

5.3 km

Café

2.2 km

Library

1.8 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 372,000

Welfare recipients

19.7 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

58%

Social housing

38%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

82%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

4,451 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

66%

Trees nearby

21%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,135

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.3 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

38%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

2.4 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Ermelo - West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,451 — 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 Ermelo - West a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Ermelo - West?

In Ermelo - West the police recorded 87 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Ermelo - West calculated?

Ermelo - West scores 8.9 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 Ermelo - West 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.