neighbourhood in Olst-Wijhe
Welsum
625 residents · postal code 8196 · Part of Welsum, Olst-Wijhe
Safe, but few children
Welsum scores high to very high on three pillars and drops away sharply on two, and the dividing line is distance every time. Amenities and families both land on a 3.4: the supermarket is a good three kilometres off, the primary school a good one.
What stands against that is rarely this complete. The 9.0 for wealth & income holds on every component, from property values far above the national median to no social assistance and almost no vacancy. The 9.8 for safety applies equally to all four offence types separately, so no category underneath is distorting the picture.
The high quiet & nature pillar has its own explanation: close to a tenth of the surface is water, noise is far below the national median, and the area is thinly populated. That is the profile of a village on the water, with the travel time that comes with it.
- no. 2,866 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 23 in Olst-Wijhe
How Welsum scores
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Is Welsum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Welsum comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Welsum 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, 6 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
Welsum has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 35%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
78 — 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 Welsum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Welsum comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Welsum 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 Welsum?
In Welsum the police recorded 6 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 Welsum calculated?
Welsum scores 8.4 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 Welsum 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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