district in Oude IJsselstreek
Ulft-Etten
Ulft-Etten has 8 neighbourhoods with 13,470 residents in total.
Ulft and Etten lie in the Achterhoek, old iron-founding country, together 13,470 residents across eight neighbourhoods in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek. Safety stands strong at 8.1, and quiet and nature reach 5.9. But wealth gets no further than 4.3, keeping the overall to 6.1. Amenities follow on 6.4. A district that scores on quiet, less so on wealth.
no. 2 of the 4 districts of Oude IJsselstreek
Short answer: Ulft-Etten scores 6.9 as a district of Oude IJsselstreek, no. 2 of the 4 districts of Oude IJsselstreek. Its strongest neighbourhood is Varsselder en Veldhunten (8.5), the worst Ulft-Centrum en Ulft-Oost (5.4). The district has 8 neighbourhoods with 13,470 residents in total.
Key figures for Ulft-Etten
- residents
- 13,470
- neighbourhoods
- 8
- km² of land
- 20.9
How Ulft-Etten 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, 259 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
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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.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
The age profile of Ulft-Etten looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,027 — 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 Ulft-Etten, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Ulft-Etten
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Ulft-Etten.
Neighbourhoods in Ulft-Etten
Sorted by total grade