neighbourhood in Zutphen
Looërenk en Woud
2,100 residents · postal code 7207 · Part of Leesten, Zutphen
Well-off, and well out of town
Not a single household in Looërenk en Woud claims social assistance, against nearly eight per thousand residents nationally. With a property value well above the median, high incomes more widely represented than nationally and little vacancy, the wealth & income pillar reaches 9.3 without one component pulling the other way.
Even so the families score stays at 7.7, although nearly six in ten households here have children and a quarter of residents are under fifteen. The brake is the primary school just over a kilometre away — the component that counts heaviest in that pillar.
The entire housing stock dates from after 2000, which makes the 6.8 for quiet & nature legible: plenty of greenery around, but a tree canopy trailing the national level. Trees need time these streets have not yet had.
- no. 792 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 31 in Zutphen
How Looërenk en Woud scores
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Is Looërenk en Woud a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Looërenk en Woud comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Looërenk en Woud 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, 35 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
Looërenk en Woud has strikingly many children under 15: 24%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1524%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
59% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,357 — 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 Looërenk en Woud a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Looërenk en Woud comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Looërenk en Woud 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 Looërenk en Woud?
In Looërenk en Woud the police recorded 35 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Looërenk en Woud calculated?
Looërenk en Woud scores 9.5 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 Looërenk en Woud 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Zutphen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zutphen.
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