neighbourhood in Etten-Leur
De Keen
3,525 residents · postal code 4871 · Part of Noord woongebied, Etten-Leur
Everything for children close by, and little room
De Keen scores 9.4 for families and 3.3 for quiet & nature, and those two figures describe the same choice. This is a densely built residential area where more than half the homes went up after 2000: the primary school is four hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children, but in the surrounding three hundred metres the share of greenery stays far below the national middle, the tree canopy does not reach three quarters of the median and open water is absent.
The wealth & income pillar points upwards across the board: property value just above the national middle, a broad top layer of incomes, little social assistance and virtually no vacancy.
One figure does not fit that picture. Violence, property crime and vandalism are all three well below the median, but burglary stands at more than double it. In a neighbourhood otherwise quiet in terms of reports, that is the component to watch.
- no. 1,436 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 44 in Etten-Leur
How De Keen scores
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Is De Keen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Keen comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Keen 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
De Keen has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,601 — 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 De Keen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Keen comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Keen 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 De Keen?
In De Keen the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 De Keen calculated?
De Keen scores 9.2 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 De Keen 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 Etten-Leur.
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