neighbourhood in Twenterand

Westerhaar-West

2,195 residents · postal code 7676 · Part of Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk, Twenterand

Top 46% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Westerhaar-West has an 8.5 for amenities and a 3.2 for wealth & income, and that is an unusual combination. Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all four within eight hundred metres — a village centre that measures like an urban district on distance.

The wealth & income pillar has not one favourable component. The property value stays far below the Dutch middle, the social assistance rate is more than three times above it, the share of households with a high income is less than half the national figure and the lowest income group covers half of all households here. Only vacancy is average, and it carries little weight.

Meanwhile all four categories of offence stay below or around the national level, producing a 7.9 for safety. Little money, few reported offences: those two by no means always go together.

no. 5,931 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 19 of 27 in Twenterand

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Is Westerhaar-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Westerhaar-West comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Westerhaar-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.

Total crime

17.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.4 per 1,000

Property crime

4.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 39 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

4.4 km

Restaurant

0.8 km

Hospital

0.8 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 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

€ 288,000

Welfare recipients

27.3 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

50%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

48%

Social housing

49%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

93%

Built after 2000

13%

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

2,275 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

58%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

428

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.4 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

0.8 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

4.8 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Westerhaar-West has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,275 — around the 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 Westerhaar-West a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Westerhaar-West?

In Westerhaar-West the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Westerhaar-West calculated?

Westerhaar-West scores 6.6 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 Westerhaar-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.