neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Boerderijenkamer
1,505 residents · postal code 3823 · Part of Kattenbroek, Amersfoort
Safe, but not spacious
A 2.7 for quiet & nature puts Boerderijenkamer in the bottom five per cent of the country, and the noise reading shows why: traffic noise here runs more than thirteen decibels above the national median. That is not a margin, that is a different acoustic environment. Greenery and tree canopy also stay below the Dutch middle, so little pushes the pillar back up.
That drags the overall score down to 7.0, while safety reaches a 9.3. Violence and property crime lie well below the national middle, burglary exactly on it, and only vandalism edges above. For anyone weighing violence heaviest — and within this pillar that component does weigh heaviest — this is a quiet neighbourhood in the other sense of the word.
Wealth & income stalls at 6.3, chiefly because of a social assistance rate more than two and a half times the national one.
- no. 5,217 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 80 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Boerderijenkamer scores
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Is Boerderijenkamer a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boerderijenkamer comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Boerderijenkamer is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 13 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
Boerderijenkamer has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 13%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,092 — 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 Boerderijenkamer a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boerderijenkamer comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Boerderijenkamer is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Boerderijenkamer?
In Boerderijenkamer the police recorded 13 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Boerderijenkamer calculated?
Boerderijenkamer scores 7.0 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 Boerderijenkamer 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Amersfoort.
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