district in Haaksbergen
Haaksbergen (dorp)
Haaksbergen (dorp) has 17 neighbourhoods with 17,125 residents in total.
Haaksbergen grew as a Twente village on the edge of the Buurserzand heath, seventeen neighbourhoods and just over 17,000 residents. Safety stands out at 8.2, while amenities (6.9) and the overall (6.9) hold around the middle. Wealth and income (4.9) and quiet and nature (4.6) stay beneath it. Families land on 8.0. A quiet, down-to-earth village deep in Twente, close to the German border.
no. 3 of the 8 districts of Haaksbergen
Short answer: Haaksbergen (dorp) scores 6.9 as a district of Haaksbergen, no. 3 of the 8 districts of Haaksbergen. Its strongest neighbourhood is Leemdijk (9.7), the worst Haaksbergen Kern-3 (4.2). The district has 17 neighbourhoods with 17,125 residents in total.
Key figures for Haaksbergen (dorp)
- residents
- 17,125
- neighbourhoods
- 17
- km² of land
- 6.4
How Haaksbergen (dorp) 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, 277 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.
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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.
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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.
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The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
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Who lives here
The age profile of Haaksbergen (dorp) looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,867 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Haaksbergen (dorp), weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Haaksbergen (dorp)
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haaksbergen (dorp).
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Neighbourhoods in Haaksbergen (dorp)
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