neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Bieshaar-Zuid
1,335 residents · postal code 3828 · Part of Hoogland, Amersfoort
Everything close by, little space
Bieshaar-Zuid has an ageing population — more than a third of residents are 65 or over and the share of children sits below the national middle — and still scores an 8.3 for families. That is not a contradiction but a consequence of how the pillar is built: distance to school and childcare accounts for nearly two thirds of it, and the primary school here is three hundred metres away. So the score says something about how reachable education is, not about how many children live here.
The wealth & income pillar stops at 6.4, and the picture is mixed. Property values are above the median and vacancy is minimal, but social assistance runs at almost three times the national rate and the share of high incomes lands exactly on the median. Two components up, two down.
The railway station is more than five kilometres away; the 9.3 for amenities comes from everything that is within half a kilometre.
- no. 1,371 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 38 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Bieshaar-Zuid scores
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Is Bieshaar-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bieshaar-Zuid comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 27 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Bieshaar-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+36%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,897 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Bieshaar-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bieshaar-Zuid comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bieshaar-Zuid?
In Bieshaar-Zuid the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Bieshaar-Zuid calculated?
Bieshaar-Zuid scores 9.2 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Bieshaar-Zuid lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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