neighbourhood in Heerde
Wapenveld
4,150 residents · postal code 8191 · Part of Wapenveld, Heerde
Safe streets, thinner wallets
A primary school three hundred metres away, in a pillar where school distance is the heaviest component: that is how Wapenveld reaches a 9.1 for families. Supermarket and doctor are both within seven hundred metres too, though neither counts towards it.
Wealth & income stalls at a 4.1, and that is not a matter of one weak point. Property values below the national median, few households on a high income, many on a low one, and social assistance at more than twice the Dutch middle — the picture is the same on every component.
What you get back in Heerde is in the quiet & nature score of 8.4. The tree canopy is more than twice as dense as in the average Dutch neighbourhood and noise sits below the median; the railway station, by contrast, is seven kilometres off.
- no. 1,420 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 14 in Heerde
How Wapenveld scores
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Is Wapenveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wapenveld comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wapenveld 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, 69 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
Wapenveld has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,641 — 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 Wapenveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wapenveld comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wapenveld 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 Wapenveld?
In Wapenveld the police recorded 69 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Wapenveld calculated?
Wapenveld 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 Wapenveld 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 Heerde.
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