neighbourhood in Rheden
Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn
7,630 residents · postal code 6881 · Part of Velp, Rheden
Everything close by, safety lags
The tree canopy around the addresses in Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn is more than three times as dense as is usual nationally, and two thirds of the surroundings counts as green. That is one half of the story. The other is that supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within a kilometre and the station a little more than a kilometre away. Greenery and urban convenience coincide here, and that is why both quiet and amenities come out above a 7.5.
The number of registered offences lies exactly at the Dutch middle, but the composition deviates: theft is well above it, while violence and vandalism stay clearly below. A 6.2 for safety is therefore about property here and not about violence.
The wealth score of 7.8 is carried by a property value far above the national middle. The only component working against it is vacancy, which lies above the Dutch level.
- no. 1,272 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 18 in Rheden
How Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn scores
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Is Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn 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, 285 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
Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,784 — 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 Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn 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 Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn?
In Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn the police recorded 285 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 Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn calculated?
Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn scores 9.3 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 Velp-Noord boven spoorlijn 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 Rheden
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Rheden.
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