neighbourhood in Lansingerland

Berkel Dorp

1,605 residents · postal code 2651 · Part of Berkel, Lansingerland

Bottom 22% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Berkel Dorp gets 9.4 for amenities and 2.8 for safety, and the two are partly connected. Theft here runs to almost four times the national middle, which fits a place with shops and cafés close by. But it does not stop at goods: violence too is more than double the median, and that cannot be explained away by footfall.

The population is old by Dutch standards — a third are 65 or over — and the wealth figures are weak: low incomes over-represented, social assistance at more than three times the national level and property values below the median. That the families pillar still stands at 7.7 comes from the short distances, not from the number of children, which is below the national level here.

no. 10,236 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 47 of 51 in Lansingerland

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Is Berkel Dorp a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

58.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

34.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 161 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

6.9 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

0.7 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.4 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

€ 402,000

Welfare recipients

24.9 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

46%

Social housing

37%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

38%

Built after 2000

19%

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

5,304 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

42%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,981

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

0.5 km

Households with children

26%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Berkel Dorp has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+33%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,304 — 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 Berkel Dorp a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Berkel Dorp comes out at 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Berkel Dorp is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Berkel Dorp?

In Berkel Dorp the police recorded 161 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (59 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 Berkel Dorp calculated?

Berkel Dorp scores 4.1 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 Berkel Dorp 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.