neighbourhood in Laarbeek

Donk

3,610 residents · postal code 5741 · Part of Beek en Donk, Laarbeek

Top 44% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Donk is a village where daily life is close at hand: GP, supermarket and restaurant are all within seven hundred metres, producing a 7.5 for amenities without a city nearby. The railway station, by contrast, is more than nine kilometres away, and that distance counts in the same pillar.

The 4.4 for wealth & income cannot be pinned on one component. Property value stays below the national median, higher incomes are scarce, lower incomes are more common than nationally, and the social assistance rate is above the Dutch middle. Only vacancy comes out favourably.

Almost three in ten residents are 65 or over. That the families pillar still reaches 6.4 comes from the short distance to school, not from the number of children.

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no. 9 of 13 in Laarbeek

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Is Donk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Donk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Donk 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

16.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

4.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 68 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

0.5 km

Train station

9.1 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

5.9 km

Café

1.7 km

Library

0.8 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

€ 364,000

Welfare recipients

19.4 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

56%

Social housing

34%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

77%

Built after 2000

15%

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

3,204 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

49%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

839

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.7 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

2.0 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,204 — 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 Donk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Donk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Donk 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 Donk?

In Donk the police recorded 68 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Donk calculated?

Donk scores 6.7 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 Donk 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.