neighbourhood in Urk
Urkerland
2,040 residents · postal code 8322 · Part of Urk, Urk
School close by, shops further off
In Urkerland almost a third of residents are under fifteen, and more than half of households have children. That is an exceptional age profile, and unlike in many neighbourhoods with a high families score, the population here carries the 9.6 just as much as the short distance to the primary school does.
The number of reported offences stands at just over a third of the national median, and that holds for each of the four types separately: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism all stay below the national median. Against that stands a 4.5 for amenities. The supermarket and the GP are about a kilometre away, but the railway station is twenty-four — this neighbourhood is built around the car, not the railway.
- no. 1,884 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 10 in Urk
How Urkerland scores
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Is Urkerland a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Urkerland comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Urkerland 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, 13 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
Urkerland has strikingly many children under 15: 32%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1532%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4538%
NL median 22%
- 45–6514%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
53% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
949 — 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 Urkerland a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Urkerland comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Urkerland 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 Urkerland?
In Urkerland the police recorded 13 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (9 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 Urkerland calculated?
Urkerland scores 8.9 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 Urkerland 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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