neighbourhood in Winterswijk
Centrale deel
3,830 residents · postal code 7101 · Part of Stad, Winterswijk
Everything close by, little to spend
Few neighbourhoods in the Netherlands score a 10.0 for amenities, and Winterswijk's Centrale deel is one of them. Supermarket, GP, restaurant and railway station are all within a kilometre here, some within three hundred metres. It is a completeness you rarely see packed this tightly in a medium-sized town.
The rest of the profile points the other way, most sharply on wealth & income. Property values are a good half of the Dutch median, high incomes are far less common here than nationally, low incomes rather more so, and social assistance runs several times above. Vacancy is slightly raised. Four of the five components point downwards, and that is what the 2.9 means.
Among the offences violence stands out: it occurs a good twice as often here as in the average neighbourhood, and violence is the heaviest component of the safety pillar. So the 2.9 there does not come from theft alone, even if theft is present too.
- no. 11,627 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 17 in Winterswijk
How Centrale deel scores
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Is Centrale deel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Centrale deel comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrale deel is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 290 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
Centrale deel has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,202 — 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 Centrale deel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Centrale deel comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrale deel is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Centrale deel?
In Centrale deel the police recorded 290 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Centrale deel calculated?
Centrale deel scores 3.3 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 Centrale deel 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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