neighbourhood in Midden-Drenthe

Bovensmilde-Centrum

2,800 residents · postal code 9421 · Part of Bovensmilde, Midden-Drenthe

Top 34% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Few neighbourhoods of this size reach a 9.6 for safety. In Bovensmilde-Centrum violence, burglary and theft all sit below the national middle and only vandalism sits slightly above it — at nearly three thousand residents that is a real difference, not noise from a handful of reports.

Quiet does not come out where you would expect for a village centre. Noise here is well below the Dutch median, one of the quietest readings you find in inhabited territory, but greenery around the built-up area stays below the national middle, and so does the tree canopy. Those two pull the pillar back to a 5.8.

Wealth & income stays at a 4.3, and that holds across several components: property value sits far below the national middle, high incomes are scarce and the social assistance rate is almost double the national one. Only vacancy is low. For anyone buying here that means a price level that does not exist in the Randstad, with a station more than eight kilometres away as the counterweight.

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Is Bovensmilde-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bovensmilde-Centrum comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Bovensmilde-Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

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

Total crime

12.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

2.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 32 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

8.5 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

7.7 km

Café

5.3 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 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

€ 298,000

Welfare recipients

14.3 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

71%

Social housing

27%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

94%

Built after 2000

11%

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

2,415 inw/km²

Noise level

47 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

417

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.4 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

0.7 km

Households with children

35%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

5.1 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Bovensmilde-Centrum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+24%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,415 — 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 Bovensmilde-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Bovensmilde-Centrum?

In Bovensmilde-Centrum the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Bovensmilde-Centrum calculated?

Bovensmilde-Centrum scores 7.5 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 Bovensmilde-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.