neighbourhood in Hellendoorn

Noetsele I

2,350 residents · postal code 7441 · Part of Nijverdal West, Hellendoorn

Top 19% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Noetsele I is one of those neighbourhoods where no single score shouts. Four pillars sit between 5.5 and 8.8, and the overall score comes out at 8.6 — higher than that spread suggests, because the overall score is not a plain average of the five.

What does stand out is the tree canopy: almost twice the national value. That lifts the quiet & nature pillar to 5.9 in a neighbourhood with more than four thousand residents per square kilometre and no water, which on its own would produce a lower score.

Wealth & income stalls at 5.5 and that comes from the property value below the median; incomes, social assistance and vacancy all sit close to the national picture. Almost three in ten residents are 65 or older, and with the primary school nine hundred metres away the families pillar comes out at 6.4.

no. 2,377 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 19 of 38 in Hellendoorn

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Is Noetsele I a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Noetsele I comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Noetsele I is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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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

14.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

4.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 32 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

0.6 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

9.4 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 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

€ 382,000

Welfare recipients

8.5 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

79%

Social housing

18%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

82%

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

4,646 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,307

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

0.9 km

Households with children

35%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Noetsele I has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+29%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,646 — 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 Noetsele I a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Noetsele I?

In Noetsele I the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Noetsele I calculated?

Noetsele I scores 8.6 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 Noetsele I 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.