district in Rheden
Dieren
Dieren has 11 neighbourhoods with 16,375 residents in total.
Dieren gathers Ellecom, Spankeren and Laag-Soeren into eleven neighbourhoods and just over 16,000 residents between the IJssel and the Veluwezoom. Amenities stand out at 8.0 and quiet and nature at 6.3. Safety (5.5), the overall (6.9) and wealth and income (4.6), by contrast, stay around or below the median. Families land on 7.5. A green village at the foot of the Veluwezoom, with the river on the other side.
no. 3 of the 3 districts of Rheden
Short answer: Dieren scores 6.9 as a district of Rheden, no. 3 of the 3 districts of Rheden. Its strongest neighbourhood is Dieren-West boven spoorlijn (8.2), the worst Verspreide huizen Fraterwaard en Beimerwaard (4.6). The district has 11 neighbourhoods with 16,375 residents in total.
Key figures for Dieren
- residents
- 16,375
- neighbourhoods
- 11
- km² of land
- 35.8
How Dieren 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, 552 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
Dieren has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,591 — 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 Dieren, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Dieren
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Dieren.
Neighbourhoods in Dieren
Sorted by total grade
- 1Dieren-West boven spoorlijn8.2
- 2Ellecom7.3
- 3Verspreide huizen Spankeren7.3
- 4Dieren-Noord boven spoorlijn6.5
- 5Spankeren6.5
- 6Dieren-Zuid beneden spoorlijn6.1
- 7Laag-Soeren5.5
- 8Verspreide huizen bosgebied Laag Soeren5.3
- 9Verspreide huizen Fraterwaard en Beimerwaard4.6
- –Verspreide huizen bosgebied Dieren
- –Verspreide huizen bosgebied Ellecom