neighbourhood in Oldenzaal
De Graven Es
5,260 residents · postal code 7577 · Part of De Graven Es, Oldenzaal
Safe, but everything is a drive away
In De Graven Es almost no violence is registered — a fraction of the national figure — and that is precisely why safety stands at a 9.0. Burglary there is: it occurs almost three times as often as usual, the only offence that comes out above the middle here.
The downside of this Oldenzaal neighbourhood is the distance. The supermarket, the GP, the school and a restaurant are all just a little more than a kilometre away, the station considerably further still. For the amenities that means a 5.8, and it also holds back the families pillar: more than four in ten households have children, but school distance counts for almost a third in that score and it is not short here.
Set against that are the surroundings: more greenery and more tree canopy than in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and a clearly lower noise level.
- no. 941 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 14 in Oldenzaal
How De Graven Es scores
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Is De Graven Es a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Graven Es comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Graven Es 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, 58 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
The age profile of De Graven Es looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,172 — 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 De Graven Es a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Graven Es comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Graven Es 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 De Graven Es?
In De Graven Es the police recorded 58 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 De Graven Es calculated?
De Graven Es 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 De Graven Es 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Oldenzaal.
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