neighbourhood in Urk
Urk-Kom
1,955 residents · postal code 8321 · Part of Urk, Urk
Everything close by, little space
Urk-Kom is densely built, and that is exactly what explains the 2.6 for quiet & nature: the share of greenery within three hundred metres is less than a third of the national middle and the tree canopy is minimal. Noise exposure, by contrast, is below the median.
The crime picture is the reverse of a city centre's. Where theft makes the score there, here it is violence and vandalism that come in well above the national median, while property crime stays far below. For residents that means something other than a raised overall figure: the risk is not at the bike rack.
Everyday amenities are all within half a kilometre, but the nearest railway station is more than twenty kilometres away.
- no. 9,646 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 10 in Urk
How Urk-Kom scores
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Is Urk-Kom a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Urk-Kom comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 67 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
Urk-Kom has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,438 — 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 Urk-Kom a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Urk-Kom comes out at 25 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 Urk-Kom?
In Urk-Kom the police recorded 67 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Urk-Kom calculated?
Urk-Kom scores 4.5 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 Urk-Kom 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 Urk.
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