- General feelings of insecurity increased from 2021 after earlier decline.
- Young women feel unsafe more than twice as often as young men.
- City dwellers feel more unsafe than rural residents.
In 2025, 37 percent of people said they generally sometimes feel unsafe. In 2019, that was still 33 percent. People have also felt more unsafe in their own neighborhood in recent years. Young women most often indicate this, with 60 percent feeling sometimes unsafe. This is reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) based on the Safety Monitor 2025, a biennial survey among people aged 15 or older.
General feelings of insecurity decreased over the past twenty years; from 50 percent in 2005 to 37 percent in 2025. Especially in the first years, these feelings decreased sharply, to 39 percent in 2008. After some years of fluctuations and a few years with little change, feelings of insecurity increased again from 2021. In 2025, these were as high as ten years earlier.
People also feel more unsafe in their own neighborhood: 17 percent, compared to 14 percent in 2019. This is less than half of the people who generally sometimes feel unsafe.