Safetlas

How safe is the Netherlands?

Officially recorded crime for every municipality - 342 in total - with rates per 1,000 residents, on an interactive map you can zoom from the whole country down to street level.

Data period: calendar year 2025. Sources: data.politie.nl registered crime · CBS population and boundaries.

Safest areas in the Netherlands

  1. Bronckhorst - 14.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
  2. Dalfsen - 14.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
  3. Tubbergen - 14.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
  4. Scherpenzeel - 15.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
  5. Urk - 15.3 crimes / 1,000 residents

Highest recorded crime

  1. Amsterdam - 85.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
  2. Rotterdam - 78.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
  3. Eindhoven - 75.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
  4. Ouder-Amstel - 75.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
  5. Utrecht - 73.0 crimes / 1,000 residents

Read the numbers honestly. Rates are per 1,000 residents, so city centres and tourist areas look worse than they feel - many visitors, few residents. Recorded crime is not the same as how safe a place feels, and recording practices differ between countries, so compare within the Netherlands only.

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All 342 municipalities drill down to 14,700+ buurten (neighbourhoods).