Duiven has 55 places, of which 39 give opening hours, 71 per cent. Of those, 79 per cent open on a Sunday, but only 23 per cent work past eleven. Only 18 per cent cannot be found online.
That low night figure lies in the terraces. Businesses close at one and at two at the end of the week, but the terrace shuts at eleven on every day of the week, so two to three hours before the venue itself. Shops may open every day from six until ten.
This is not an old village but government policy. In 1981 Duiven was designated a growth centre, and the consequence shows in the figures: from 11,731 residents in 1985 to 22,395 in 1994, almost a doubling in ten years. From that come the districts, the industrial estates and the shopping centre.
Since then the peak has passed: the population stood at 26,163 in 2003 and is now 24,852. Duiven is thereby the only one of these fourteen places that is shrinking.
The municipality is still independent, but not self-evidently so: together with Zevenaar, Westervoort and Doesburg it is working towards a single Liemers municipality, with 2029 as the target year, and Duiven has said yes to that in principle. Of the residents, 24 per cent are over sixty-five.