neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Calveen
150 residents · postal code 3824 · Part of Calveen, Amersfoort
Well-off, but not spacious
Calveen has a hundred and fifty residents spread over a large area, and that makes any crime figure here shaky: a single report immediately shows up in the rate per thousand. The offence rate is above the national middle and so is the violence figure, but that concerns a handful of cases. The 6.5 for safety has to be read with that caveat.
The wealth & income pillar, a 9.1, rests on firmer ground: a property value far above the median, no social assistance, vacancy exactly at the national level. The share of low incomes lands precisely on the median and therefore points nowhere.
What is solid: this is not a place with everything around the corner. The supermarket and the primary school are almost two kilometres away, the station more than four. That the families pillar still reaches a 7.9 is down to households with children making up half the total here.
- no. 2,688 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 59 of 131 in Amersfoort
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Calveen scores
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Is Calveen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Calveen comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 51 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
Calveen has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 19%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2519%
NL median 11%
- 25–4514%
NL median 22%
- 45–6542%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
256 — far less 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 Calveen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Calveen comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Calveen?
In Calveen the police recorded 51 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (32 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 Calveen calculated?
Calveen scores 8.5 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 Calveen 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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