neighbourhood in Lingewaard
Loovelden
3,545 residents · postal code 6852 · Part of Huissen, Lingewaard
School close by, shops further off
Loovelden ranks among the hundred highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the country, and unusually that is not a matter of one outlier. The wealth & income pillar holds up on every component: the property value is well above the national middle, the highest income group is one and a half times as broad as nationally, the lowest thinner, vacancy minimal, and the number of social assistance benefits comes out at zero in the CBS figures.
The population is young. More than six in ten households have children and over a quarter of residents are under fifteen — that is where the 9.7 for families comes from, reinforced by a primary school within walking distance.
The bill lands on accessibility. The supermarket is further away than in most Dutch neighbourhoods and the railway station more than six kilometres off. Anyone living here does almost everything by car; that is what the 6.3 for amenities means in practice.
- no. 83 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 39 in Lingewaard
How Loovelden scores
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Is Loovelden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Loovelden comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Loovelden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 56 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
Loovelden has strikingly many children under 15: 27%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1527%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
63% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,456 — 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 Loovelden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Loovelden comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Loovelden 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 Loovelden?
In Loovelden the police recorded 56 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 Loovelden calculated?
Loovelden scores 10.0 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 Loovelden 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Lingewaard
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Lingewaard.
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