neighbourhood in Laren (NH.)

Laren-Centrum

1,735 residents · postal code 1251 · Part of Laren, Laren (NH.)

Top 17% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Property value in Laren-Centrum is almost double the national median, and that pulls the wealth & income pillar to an 8.7 despite a vacancy rate more than three times the national figure. What the score does not show is that the income distribution here runs both ways: the top group is considerably broader than the national figure, but the bottom one is barely narrower.

Set against that wealth is a 3.6 for safety, driven mainly by property crime — almost double the median — with violence slightly above it as well. Burglary barely deviates. Oddly enough, quiet & nature stays high at a 7.2 for a place with shops and restaurants two hundred metres away: greenery nearby, and above all the tree canopy, is exceptionally generous here.

no. 2,195 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 7 of 9 in Laren (NH.)

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Is Laren-Centrum 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

39.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

17.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 166 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

0.7 km

Train station

5.0 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 830,000

Welfare recipients

5.8 per 1,000

High incomes

34%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

13%

Owner-occupied

70%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

69%

Built after 2000

10%

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

2,385 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

66%

Trees nearby

25%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,235

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.4 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

21%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Laren-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–257%
NL median 11%
25–4518%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+36%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,385 — around the 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 Laren-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Laren-Centrum comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Laren-Centrum 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 Laren-Centrum?

In Laren-Centrum the police recorded 166 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Laren-Centrum calculated?

Laren-Centrum scores 8.7 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 Laren-Centrum 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.