neighbourhood in Amersfoort
De Verwondering e.o.
1,040 residents · postal code 3823 · Part of Kattenbroek, Amersfoort
Everything for children close by, and little room
Almost no neighbourhood in the Netherlands reaches an overall score of 10.0, and De Verwondering e.o. gets there without excelling on any single point. Safety and families both sit close to ten, wealth & income is high, and the weakest pillar — quiet & nature, at 5.9 — is still not dire. The overall score is not the average of the five, but a spread like this, with no real drop anywhere, is what produces a figure like it.
The primary school is two hundred metres away, and that is most of the story behind the families pillar. The high share of households with children comes on top of it.
Within quiet & nature it stands out that water covers more than ten times as much ground here as in the average Dutch neighbourhood, while greenery stays below the median and tree canopy lands exactly on it. Water and greenery carry equal weight; here they largely cancel each other out.
- no. 58 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 131 in Amersfoort
How De Verwondering e.o. scores
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Is De Verwondering e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Verwondering e.o. comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Verwondering e.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 8 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
De Verwondering e.o. has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 16%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,929 — 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 De Verwondering e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Verwondering e.o. comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Verwondering e.o. 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 De Verwondering e.o.?
In De Verwondering e.o. the police recorded 8 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 De Verwondering e.o. calculated?
De Verwondering e.o. scores 10.0 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 De Verwondering e.o. 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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