The districts of Haaksbergen
Haaksbergen has 24,225 residents (2026), spread across 8 districts and 29 neighbourhoods.
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Haaksbergen comes out at 6.8 as a municipality — better than 57% of Dutch neighbourhoods. Safety lifts that grade with 8.0; wealth and income hold it back at 5.4. The highest neighbourhood grades sit in Leemdijk (9.7), the lowest in Haaksbergen Kern-Centrum (3.5). That is 6.2 points of difference inside one municipality.
Key figures for Haaksbergen
- residents
- 24,225
- districts
- 8
- neighbourhoods
- 29
- km² of land
- 105
How Haaksbergen scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 579 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Haaksbergen →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Haaksbergen →
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 Haaksbergen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,029 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Haaksbergen, weighted by population.
Strongest neighbourhoods
The best neighbourhoods in Haaksbergen →Leemdijk
Haaksbergen
Veldmaat 1
Haaksbergen
Verspreide huizen Veldmaat ten noorden van de spoorlijn
Haaksbergen
Hassinkbrink
Haaksbergen
De Els
Haaksbergen
Veldmaat 2
Haaksbergen
Weakest neighbourhoods
The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Haaksbergen →Other rankings
All districts of Haaksbergen
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