neighbourhood in Wierden
Wierden-West
2,165 residents · postal code 7642 · Part of Wierden (kern), Wierden
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Virtually every home in Wierden-West is a single-family home, and with a 9.2 for safety the neighbourhood belongs to the fifteen hundred best-scoring in the country. Burglary is almost absent here and criminal damage runs at a third of the national level; violence lands exactly on the national median.
The wealth & income pillar trails far behind at 3.7, and it is striking for what does not fit the picture. Two thirds of the homes are owner-occupied, but property value stays well below the national median, the top income bracket does not reach two thirds of the national share, and the social assistance rate is more than three times the middle. Home ownership and wealth diverge here.
The 4.0 for quiet & nature comes from the surroundings, not the density: there is no water, the share of green space within three hundred metres stays below the national middle and so does the tree canopy. What is close by is everything you need day to day, including the station a little over a kilometre away.
- no. 3,294 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 27 in Wierden
How Wierden-West scores
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Is Wierden-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wierden-West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wierden-West 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, 33 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
The age profile of Wierden-West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,174 — 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 Wierden-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wierden-West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wierden-West 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 Wierden-West?
In Wierden-West the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Wierden-West calculated?
Wierden-West scores 8.1 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 Wierden-West 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Wierden.
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