neighbourhood in Urk
De Top
4,500 residents · postal code 8321 · Part of Urk, Urk
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
In De Top more than half the households have children, and the share of residents under fifteen is almost double what is usual nationally. With the primary school three hundred metres away, that produces a 9.9 for families — a score that for once really is about children and not only about distances.
The wealth & income pillar gets no further than 4.5. Property value stays below the national median and the lowest income group is broad, while social assistance and vacancy barely deviate from average. Many families, few large incomes.
The safety pillar stands at 9.2, with all four types of offence below the national median. What you give up here is the train: the nearest station is more than twenty kilometres away, while the supermarket and the GP are a few minutes' walk.
- no. 1,682 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 10 in Urk
How De Top scores
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Is De Top a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Top comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Top 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.
In 2025, 54 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
De Top has strikingly many children under 15: 27%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1527%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
3.2 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
54% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,183 — far 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 De Top a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Top comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Top is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Top?
In De Top the police recorded 54 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 De Top calculated?
De Top scores 9.0 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 De Top 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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