district in Montferland
Didam
Didam has 9 neighbourhoods with 17,530 residents in total.
Didam, with Loil and the surrounding hamlets, forms a village of nine neighbourhoods and just over 17,000 residents in the Achterhoek municipality of Montferland. Safety stands out at 8.7 and amenities reach 7.8. Quiet and nature sits around the middle at 5.5, while wealth and income clearly lags at 4.7. The overall comes to 6.9. A quiet, Catholic rural village between Arnhem and the German border.
no. 2 of the 3 districts of Montferland
Short answer: Didam scores 7.4 as a district of Montferland, no. 2 of the 3 districts of Montferland. Its strongest neighbourhood is Verspreide huizen De Hogenend en Oud-Dijk (9.8), the lowest-scoring Didam-Zuid (6.4). The district has 9 neighbourhoods with 17,530 residents in total.
Key figures for Didam
- residents
- 17,530
- neighbourhoods
- 9
- km² of land
- 31.8
How Didam 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, 308 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 Didam looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,158 — 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 Didam, weighted by population.
The best and lowest-scoring neighbourhoods of Didam
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Didam.
Neighbourhoods in Didam
Sorted by total grade