neighbourhood in Súdwest-Fryslân

Dearsum

110 residents · postal code 8644 · Part of Boarnsterhim, Súdwest-Fryslân

Bottom 15% in the Netherlands

Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children

Dearsum has a little over a hundred residents in an area where twenty-five people live per square kilometre. Nine tenths of the surroundings are green and it is quiet; the 8.7 for quiet & nature follows directly from that. The tree canopy, by contrast, is strikingly thin, so that greenery is open land rather than woodland.

That Statistics Netherlands publishes no income distribution here is settled policy where there are too few households; the wealth & income score of 7.2 therefore rests on less information than elsewhere. What is recorded: not one social assistance benefit, no vacancy, and a property value below the national middle.

The 2.7 for families mirrors the quiet score. The primary school is nearly three kilometres away and few children live here. Anyone with school-age children does the run twice a day.

no. 11,148 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 106 of 141 in Súdwest-Fryslân

This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.

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Is Dearsum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Dearsum comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

24.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

9.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 1 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

4.6 km

GP practice

3.1 km

Train station

6.9 km

Restaurant

2.8 km

Hospital

9.0 km

Café

2.9 km

Library

8.1 km

Motorway ramp

0.2 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 371,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

89%

Social housing

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

100%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

25 inw/km²

Noise level

48 dB

Green surroundings

90%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

2.9 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

2.9 km

Secondary school

7.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Dearsum has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 7%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–257%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6532%
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
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
25 — 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 Dearsum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Dearsum comes out at 24 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 Dearsum?

In Dearsum the police recorded 1 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Dearsum calculated?

Dearsum scores 3.6 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 Dearsum 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.