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What is the impact of crime on its victims?

Recent data on distribution of well-being for the theme safety by sex, age, education level and origin/country of birth. Well-being is not distributed equally across all groups in the population.

What is well-being ‘here and now’? Safety is about victims and feelings of (un)safety. Crime and perceived (un)safety directly impact the quality of life of citizens.

In 2024, 2.4 million people in the Netherlands aged 15 and over said they had been the victim of one or more forms of online crime within the past twelve months.

Two percent of Dutch people aged 15 or older were victims of stalking in 2023: 137 thousand females and 90 thousand males.

Feelings of unsafety among Dutch people are declining progressively. In 2012, 37 percent indicated that they felt unsafe occasionally in general terms, versus 32 percent in 2019.

In 2017, 23% fewer crime victims than in 2012. Police recorded crime per inhabitant dropped by 30%.

Residents of the four major cities in the Netherlands are least likely to feel safe in their own neighbourhood. City centres in particular make people feel uneasy.