neighbourhood in Valkenswaard
Hoge Akkers
3,280 residents · postal code 5554 · Part of Valkenswaard, Valkenswaard
Safe, but not spacious
Hoge Akkers scores 8.5 for safety and at the same time has a burglary rate of roughly five times the national median. That seems not to add up, but the total number of reported offences here is far below the middle and violence at less than a third of it. Burglary carries substantial weight within the pillar; that is why the score stays under 9. For anyone moving here it is the one point on which this neighbourhood departs from its own quiet picture.
The railway station is eleven kilometres away and pulls the amenities pillar down to 5.9, while GP, school and restaurant are all within eight hundred metres.
In the wealth & income pillar most things point up — a property value above the national middle, little social assistance, a broader top layer — with vacancy as the exception, sitting above the median.
- no. 4,191 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 20 in Valkenswaard
How Hoge Akkers scores
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Is Hoge Akkers a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoge Akkers comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Hoge Akkers 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, 53 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
Hoge Akkers has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,815 — 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 Hoge Akkers a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoge Akkers comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Hoge Akkers 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 Hoge Akkers?
In Hoge Akkers the police recorded 53 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Hoge Akkers calculated?
Hoge Akkers scores 7.6 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 Hoge Akkers 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Valkenswaard
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Valkenswaard.
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