neighbourhood in Hardenberg
Baalderveld
3,820 residents · postal code 7772 · Part of Hardenberg, Hardenberg
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Baalderveld ranks with a 9.9 among the country's highest-scoring neighbourhoods, and the safety pillar contributes most to that. All four recorded types of offence sit below the Dutch median, violence at a good third of it. The total of reported offences is less than half what is usual nationally.
The brake sits on wealth & income, and it is subtle. The income distribution barely differs from the national one, the number of social assistance claims sits almost exactly at the Dutch median and vacancy is minimal. What holds the pillar at a 6.0 is property value, which stays below the national median — and property value is by far the heaviest component of that calculation.
The 9.5 for families comes from two directions at once: the primary school is five hundred metres away and almost half of households have children, against only a fifth consisting of a single person. The nearest restaurant is a good kilometre and a half away.
- no. 240 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 70 in Hardenberg
How Baalderveld scores
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Is Baalderveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Baalderveld comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Baalderveld 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, 41 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 Baalderveld looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,541 — around the 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 Baalderveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Baalderveld comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Baalderveld 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 Baalderveld?
In Baalderveld the police recorded 41 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Baalderveld calculated?
Baalderveld scores 9.9 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 Baalderveld 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Hardenberg
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hardenberg.
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