neighbourhood in Westerveld
Dwingeloo
2,380 residents · postal code 7991 · Part of Dwingeloo, Westerveld
Safe, but few children
Of the five pillars, families is by far the weakest in Dwingeloo at a 3.5, and the two components that carry weight in it point the same way: the primary school is more than a kilometre away and almost a third of residents are 65 or older.
Against that stands an 8.7 for safety. Only burglary rises slightly above the national median; violence and property crime stay far below it, and the total number of reported offences is about half that of the median Dutch neighbourhood.
Amenities are middling at a 5.7, and that is misleading: supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within a kilometre, but the railway station is more than twelve away.
- no. 8,569 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 42 in Westerveld
How Dwingeloo scores
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Is Dwingeloo a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dwingeloo comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dwingeloo 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, 34 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
Dwingeloo has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,591 — 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 Dwingeloo a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dwingeloo comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dwingeloo 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 Dwingeloo?
In Dwingeloo 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 Dwingeloo calculated?
Dwingeloo scores 5.1 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 Dwingeloo 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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