neighbourhood in Gennep
Midden
4,010 residents · postal code 6591 · Part of Gennep, Gennep
Everything close by, little to spend
Of the four types of offence in Midden only one stands out: violence, at nearly twice the national median. Burglary sits exactly on it, vandalism below and property crime barely above. So the 4.4 for safety comes from a single kind of offence, and that makes a real difference to what residents notice.
The age structure explains the second striking figure. A third of residents are 65 or older while only one in nine is under fifteen; the primary school is six hundred metres away, so the middling families score comes not from distance but from who lives here. The 3.4 for wealth & income has no second side: high incomes occur here half as often as nationally, the benefit rate is more than three times higher and the property value lags far behind. What usually comes with such figures elsewhere, vacancy, is absent here: it sits exactly at the national median.
- no. 10,113 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 16 in Gennep
How Midden scores
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Is Midden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Midden comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 164 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
Midden has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+33%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,178 — 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 Midden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Midden comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Midden?
In Midden the police recorded 164 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (32 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 Midden calculated?
Midden scores 4.2 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 Midden 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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