neighbourhood in Wierden
De Hooilanden
2,580 residents · postal code 7641 · Part of Wierden (kern), Wierden
Safe, but everything is a drive away
In De Hooilanden almost every second household has children, and yet the families score gets no further than 6.0. That is down to distance: the primary school here is a good kilometre away, and school access is by far the heaviest component of that pillar. Plenty of children, but no school round the corner.
The same distances explain the 5.5 for amenities. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are all around a kilometre and a half away — in this neighbourhood you live on the edge of the village, not inside it.
The compensation is in the 9.3 for safety. The number of recorded offences is less than half as high as the national median, and property crime is downright rare. For families who accept a cycle ride to school, this is one of the quieter corners of Twente, with a property value that stays just under the national middle.
- no. 3,010 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 27 in Wierden
How De Hooilanden scores
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Is De Hooilanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Hooilanden comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Hooilanden 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, 25 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
De Hooilanden has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 15%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,548 — 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 De Hooilanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Hooilanden comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Hooilanden 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 De Hooilanden?
In De Hooilanden the police recorded 25 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 De Hooilanden calculated?
De Hooilanden scores 8.3 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 De Hooilanden 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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