Many Dutch people feel safe in their own neighborhood. They give the rating 7.2, Friday in the security monitoring scheme by the Central Bureau of statistics and the Ministry of security and justice.
There is a big difference between the different provinces and cities.
In the regions the Hague Centre and Rotterdam South feel one in ten inhabitants often unsafe in the private living area. In Drenthe, Zeeland, Friesland and North and Eastern Gelderland is that less than 1 percent.
Of the surveyed Dutch finds one in ten that much crime is in his or her home environment. 3 percent of the people is afraid of becoming a victim of crime. One in five people feel unsafe in their own neighborhood sometimes.
Women feel unsafe more often than men. 13% of the women says in the evening, not open the door to do when the bell rings. 5 percent of women feel unsafe on the streets in the evening.
Last more than 40% of Dutch people says that in his or her neighborhood much inconvenience. This applies especially to hard moving cars and dog poo on the streets. Also say people quite often bothered by local residents.
Go though local residents generally with each other in a pleasant way, 70 percent of the Dutch. A quarter says that local residents barely know each other. Nearly 40 percent claims to have a lot of contact with neighbors.
The previous years figures areas not much off of surveys from previous years. Also now came forward again that people in villages have more contact with people in their street than people who live in a city.
© NU.nl/Door: REUTERS
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