neighbourhood in Gennep

Ven-Zelderheide

585 residents · postal code 6599 · Part of Ven-Zelderheide, Gennep

Bottom 41% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

The supermarket is almost five kilometres away and the GP more than three, while the primary school and the restaurant are both five hundred metres off. That split explains the 3.8 for amenities in Ven-Zelderheide, since supermarket and GP are precisely what weigh most there.

The families pillar stays at 4.3 despite that short school distance, and that points to the population itself: more than a quarter of residents are over sixty-five and only one in nine is under fifteen. In the quiet & nature pillar something else stands out. More than three quarters of the surroundings within three hundred metres is green and noise is almost four decibels below the median, but the tree canopy does not reach half the national middle — open land, few trees. What remains is a 7.0.

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no. 10 of 16 in Gennep

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Is Ven-Zelderheide a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ven-Zelderheide comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

22.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

8.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 14 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

4.7 km

GP practice

3.2 km

Train station

12.6 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

11.2 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

4.4 km

Motorway ramp

0.3 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

€ 433,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

86%

Social housing

10%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

99%

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

853 inw/km²

Noise level

48 dB

Green surroundings

77%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 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

30%

Childcare

3.5 km

Secondary school

6.1 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Ven-Zelderheide looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4518%
NL median 22%
45–6533%
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
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
853 — far less 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 Ven-Zelderheide a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ven-Zelderheide comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Ven-Zelderheide?

In Ven-Zelderheide the police recorded 14 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Ven-Zelderheide calculated?

Ven-Zelderheide scores 5.6 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 Ven-Zelderheide 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.