neighbourhood in West Maas en Waal
Kern Dreumel
2,630 residents · postal code 6621 · Part of Dreumel, West Maas en Waal
Safe, but few children
Three quarters of the surroundings of Kern Dreumel is green space, well above the national picture, while the tree canopy stays below it. Plenty of open ground, then, and little canopy overhead; together with a noise level below the median that produces a 6.8 for quiet & nature.
The families pillar gets no further than 5.1 even though the primary school is seven hundred metres away. It is the composition: almost three in ten residents are 65 or older and the share of children is below the national picture.
With safety, theft and vandalism are below the national median, violence sits exactly on it and only burglary is above. That is a 7.4 without a pronounced weakness, in a neighbourhood where the station is fifteen kilometres away and everything else is within walking distance.
- no. 5,636 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 16 in West Maas en Waal
How Kern Dreumel scores
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Is Kern Dreumel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Dreumel comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Dreumel 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, 39 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
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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
Kern Dreumel has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,040 — 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 Kern Dreumel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Dreumel comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Dreumel 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 Kern Dreumel?
In Kern Dreumel the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Kern Dreumel calculated?
Kern Dreumel scores 6.8 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 Kern Dreumel 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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