neighbourhood in Wijchen
Huurlingsedam
2,355 residents · postal code 6603 · Part of Wijchen kern, Wijchen
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Fifty-five percent of households in Huurlingsedam have children and a quarter of residents are under fifteen — against five percent over 65. Almost every home was built after 2000. This is one of the youngest population structures in the data.
The families pillar reaches 8.9 on that, which is striking precisely because the primary school is more than a kilometre and a half away. School distance weighs heaviest in that pillar; the share of children and of households with children must therefore make up a great deal here.
Wealth & income stands at 8.2 and it is broad: three in ten households in the highest income group, a quarter in the lowest against almost four in ten nationally, barely any vacancy and a property value above the median. Only the social assistance rate is one and a half times above the national middle — the single component not working with it.
- no. 689 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 56 in Wijchen
How Huurlingsedam scores
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Is Huurlingsedam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Huurlingsedam comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Huurlingsedam 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, 29 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
Huurlingsedam has strikingly many children under 15: 25%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1525%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+5%
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
55% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,004 — 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 Huurlingsedam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Huurlingsedam comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Huurlingsedam 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 Huurlingsedam?
In Huurlingsedam the police recorded 29 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 Huurlingsedam calculated?
Huurlingsedam scores 9.6 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 Huurlingsedam 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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