neighbourhood in Stein (L.)
Kerensheide
2,575 residents · postal code 6171 · Part of Stein, Stein (L.)
Everything close by, safety lags
Kerensheide sits in rural surroundings with plenty of greenery, and yet quiet & nature gets no further than 5.0. The explanation is noise: at fifty-eight decibels the level here is well above the national median. Greenery without silence yields only half the gain in this pillar.
The 3.3 for safety has a clear source. Violence comes in at more than twice the national median and burglary at over double, while property crime stays below the national middle. So this is not the pattern of a place where things go missing — it is about the heavier categories.
The wealth & income score of 4.1 hangs mainly on the property value, which comes to around seventy per cent of the median, and on a rate of social assistance three times the normal level. The income distribution itself deviates only modestly from the national picture.
- no. 10,164 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 13 in Stein (L.)
How Kerensheide scores
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Is Kerensheide a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kerensheide comes out at 30 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, 94 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
Kerensheide has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,945 — 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 Kerensheide a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kerensheide comes out at 30 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 Kerensheide?
In Kerensheide the police recorded 94 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Kerensheide calculated?
Kerensheide scores 4.2 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 Kerensheide 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 Stein (L.).
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