neighbourhood in Land van Cuijk
Esterveld
3,015 residents · postal code 5361 · Part of Grave, Land van Cuijk
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Esterveld combines an 8.9 for safety with a 4.7 for wealth & income, and that second figure is the only thing really pulling the neighbourhood down. All four types of reported offence are below the national median here: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism.
The low wealth score does not come from one direction. Property value is well below the national median and carries the most weight in that pillar, but on top of that someone here claims social assistance more than twice as often as is usual nationally. The bottom income group is exactly the same size as in the country as a whole. So the picture is not broad poverty, but cheap housing with a thicker layer of assistance inside it.
The 6.4 for amenities hangs on a single distance. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all within a kilometre, but the nearest railway station is more than nine kilometres away. Anyone living here without a car notices it on every trip outside the municipality.
- no. 2,769 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 92 in Land van Cuijk
How Esterveld scores
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Is Esterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Esterveld comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 59 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 Esterveld looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,671 — 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 Esterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Esterveld comes out at 18 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 Esterveld?
In Esterveld the police recorded 59 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Esterveld calculated?
Esterveld scores 8.4 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 Esterveld 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 Land van Cuijk.
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