neighbourhood in Loon op Zand
Draaiboom
1,880 residents · postal code 5172 · Part of Kaatsheuvel-West, Loon op Zand
Safe, but not spacious
Draaiboom achieves a 10.0 for safety, and it is not there thanks to one favourable figure: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are all four well below the national middle, violence even at a fraction of it.
Against that stands the lowest pillar, and it has nothing to do with crime. The quiet & nature pillar measures density, noise, greenery, tree canopy and water, and on most of those Draaiboom lags: over six thousand residents per square kilometre, little greenery nearby, no open water. The noise level is nationally average.
The primary school and the GP are both within a kilometre; the supermarket and certainly the station are further away. That shows: the families pillar comes out at 9.6, the amenities pillar stays at 4.8.
- no. 1,592 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 30 in Loon op Zand
How Draaiboom scores
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Is Draaiboom a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Draaiboom comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Draaiboom 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, 14 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
Draaiboom has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 16%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,235 — 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 Draaiboom a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Draaiboom comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Draaiboom 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 Draaiboom?
In Draaiboom the police recorded 14 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Draaiboom calculated?
Draaiboom scores 9.1 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 Draaiboom 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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