neighbourhood in Westerveld

Diever

2,365 residents · postal code 7981 · Part of Diever, Westerveld

Top 29% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

More than sixteen kilometres to the nearest station: that is the figure everything else in Diever can be read around. Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within a kilometre, but rail counts for a sixth of the amenities pillar and pulls it down to 5.6. A car belongs here.

Quiet & nature comes out at 7.7 and that is earned on every component: a noise level a good four decibels Lden below the national middle, more green and more tree canopy than nationally, and barely fourteen hundred residents per square kilometre.

The wealth & income pillar stalls at 4.9 while seven in ten homes are owner-occupied — that ratio barely counts in it. What does count: the property value below the median, an over-represented lowest income group and a social assistance rate more than one and a half times the national middle.

no. 3,711 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 2 of 42 in Westerveld

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Is Diever a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Diever comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Diever is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

13.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

2.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 34 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.7 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

16.3 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

18.1 km

Café

14.2 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 389,000

Welfare recipients

12.7 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

70%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

91%

Built after 2000

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

1,443 inw/km²

Noise level

47 dB

Green surroundings

57%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

303

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.4 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.6 km

Households with children

27%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Diever has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4516%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+35%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,443 — 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 Diever a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Diever comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Diever 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 Diever?

In Diever the police recorded 34 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 Diever calculated?

Diever scores 7.9 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 Diever 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.