neighbourhood in Hellendoorn

Groot Lochter

2,270 residents · postal code 7442 · Part of Nijverdal Oost, Hellendoorn

Top 23% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Every home in Groot Lochter is a single-family home and hardly any of them were built this century. With a primary school four hundred metres away and almost four in ten households having children, that produces a 9.0 for families.

The 3.8 for wealth & income sits harshly beside it. The property value stays well below the national median, the share of high incomes is small, that of low incomes large and the social assistance rate is at almost four times the middle. Only vacancy points the other way here.

Among the offences violence, burglary and property crime all stay below the national median; only vandalism comes out marginally above. That explains the 9.1 for safety. The tree canopy is at almost twice the median and the sound level below it, which brings quiet & nature to 7.7 — the GP and the nearest restaurant, by contrast, are well outside the neighbourhood.

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no. 24 of 38 in Hellendoorn

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Is Groot Lochter a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Groot Lochter comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

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

Total crime

20.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

5.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 47 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

0.5 km

GP practice

1.4 km

Train station

2.6 km

Restaurant

2.4 km

Hospital

8.1 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

2.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.9 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

€ 316,000

Welfare recipients

30.8 per 1,000

High incomes

10%

Low incomes

47%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

63%

Social housing

36%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

100%

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

2,877 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

51%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

848

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.7 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

0.4 km

Households with children

38%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

2.2 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Groot Lochter looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+25%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,877 — 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 Groot Lochter a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Groot Lochter comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Groot Lochter?

In Groot Lochter the police recorded 47 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Groot Lochter calculated?

Groot Lochter scores 8.3 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 Groot Lochter 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.