neighbourhood in Raalte
Het Raan West
1,600 residents · postal code 8103 · Part of Raalte, Raalte
Safe, and nowhere really weak
Het Raan West ends up at a 10.0, and the striking thing is that no single component has to stand out for it. All four crime types are below the national middle, with violence and vandalism at a quarter of it. Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all six hundred metres away. Property values sit almost exactly on the median, as does the share of high incomes.
A top score here therefore comes not from one strong pillar but from the absence of weak spots — a neighbourhood without a clear downside is rarer than one with a single outlier.
The quiet & nature pillar stays closest to average at 6.9: greenery within three hundred metres is slightly below the national median, and noise exposure slightly below it too.
- no. 46 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 36 in Raalte
How Het Raan West scores
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Is Het Raan West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Raan West comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Raan West 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, 16 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 Het Raan West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,550 — 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 Het Raan West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Raan West comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Raan West 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 Het Raan West?
In Het Raan West the police recorded 16 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Het Raan West calculated?
Het Raan West scores 10.0 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 Het Raan West 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Raalte
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Raalte.
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