neighbourhood in Staphorst
Rouveen Streek-Zuid
945 residents · postal code 7954 · Part of Rouveen (kern), Staphorst
Room to spare, amenities further off
Rouveen Streek-Zuid is a ribbon through open land: barely two hundred residents per square kilometre, and three-quarters of the surroundings within three hundred metres is green. That yields a 7.6 for quiet & nature.
The amenities pillar shows a lopsided pattern you rarely see this clearly. The GP is a kilometre and a half away, so care is within reach, but the supermarket stands nearly six kilometres off and the railway station more than eleven. Doing the shopping here means a drive; seeing the doctor does not.
Reported offences are above the national middle and the make-up is unusual: violence comes in at more than one and a half times the median while burglary and property crime stay below it. With fewer than a thousand residents, each report stands for a lot per thousand, so caution is warranted.
- no. 8,681 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 19 of 23 in Staphorst
How Rouveen Streek-Zuid scores
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Is Rouveen Streek-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rouveen Streek-Zuid comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 36 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
Rouveen Streek-Zuid has strikingly many children under 15: 25%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1525%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
51% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
200 — 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 Rouveen Streek-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rouveen Streek-Zuid comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Rouveen Streek-Zuid?
In Rouveen Streek-Zuid the police recorded 36 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Rouveen Streek-Zuid calculated?
Rouveen Streek-Zuid scores 5.0 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 Rouveen Streek-Zuid 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 Staphorst
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Staphorst.
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