district in Winterswijk
Stad
Stad has 5 neighbourhoods with 23,150 residents in total.
Winterswijk's town is the main core of this Achterhoek border place, five neighbourhoods and just over 23,000 residents around the central part. Amenities score 8.3 and safety 7.6, figures that suit a compact town with everything at hand. Wealth, though, stays far below the median at 3.6, and quiet and nature comes to 5.5. That leaves the overall at 7.0: a solid, somewhat ageing regional town deep in the Achterhoek, with 7.9 on the families grade.
no. 1 of the 2 districts of Winterswijk
Short answer: Stad scores 7.0 as a district of Winterswijk, no. 1 of the 2 districts of Winterswijk. Its strongest neighbourhood is Winterswijk-Noordwest (9.4), the worst Centrale deel (3.3). The district has 5 neighbourhoods with 23,150 residents in total.
Key figures for Stad
- residents
- 23,150
- neighbourhoods
- 5
- km² of land
- 7.8
How Stad 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, 639 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 Stad looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
2.1 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,347 — 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 Stad, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Stad
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Stad.
Neighbourhoods in Stad
Sorted by total grade