neighbourhood in Mook en Middelaar
Molenhoek
3,725 residents · postal code 6584 · Part of Mook, Mook en Middelaar
Spacious, but safety lags
Molenhoek combines two things that rarely go together. Greenery in the surroundings covers more than one and a half times the national median and the tree canopy more than three times, at fewer than twelve hundred residents per square kilometre — hence the 9.6 for quiet & nature. At the same time the railway station is eight hundred metres away, which lifts amenities to 8.6.
Anyone wanting to live rurally without needing a car for everything finds an exception here to the usual trade-off.
The safety figures are less clear-cut. The number of recorded offences is just above the national median, driven by property crime; violence stays well below it. That yields a 6.4 — the lowest of the five pillars, and the only point on which this Mook en Middelaar neighbourhood is nationally average.
- no. 788 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 5 in Mook en Middelaar
How Molenhoek scores
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Is Molenhoek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenhoek comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 129 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
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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
Molenhoek has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,177 — far less 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 Molenhoek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenhoek comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Molenhoek?
In Molenhoek the police recorded 129 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Molenhoek calculated?
Molenhoek scores 9.5 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 Molenhoek 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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