neighbourhood in Zevenaar
Giesbeek
2,640 residents · postal code 6987 · Part of Giesbeek, Zevenaar
Safe streets, thinner wallets
More than an eighth of the surface of Giesbeek is water, many times the national picture. That lifts the quiet & nature pillar to 7.9, together with a noise level far below the national middle; the tree canopy, by contrast, lags.
The families pillar sticks at 5.4 even though the primary school is six hundred metres away. That score therefore comes not from distance but from composition: the share of young residents is below the national picture and a quarter of residents are 65 or older.
Wealth & income comes out at 5.2, and that traces back almost entirely to two things: property values well below the national median and a social assistance rate close to twice the national middle. The income distribution itself is near the national picture.
- no. 2,199 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 36 in Zevenaar
How Giesbeek scores
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Is Giesbeek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Giesbeek comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Giesbeek 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, 27 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 Giesbeek looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,673 — 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 Giesbeek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Giesbeek comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Giesbeek 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 Giesbeek?
In Giesbeek the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Giesbeek calculated?
Giesbeek scores 8.7 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 Giesbeek 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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