neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Duisterweg e.o.
1,185 residents · postal code 3825 · Part of Vathorst-De Velden, Amersfoort
Well-off, but not spacious
In Duisterweg e.o. fewer than one in twenty residents is 65 or over, while more than six in ten households have children. Ratios like that are rare in the Netherlands; this is a neighbourhood in a single stage of life.
The scores for wealth & income and for safety both sit close to ten and are internally consistent: high property value, many high incomes, no social assistance, no vacancy, and all four offence types below the national middle. The 3.3 for quiet & nature pulls the overall score down, and it comes from tree canopy and greenery, both below the median, on firmly built-up ground.
The GP is two and a half kilometres away, and for a neighbourhood with this many young children that is the practical inconvenience hidden inside the 5.7 for amenities. The pillar score also counts the station and the supermarket; the trip to the doctor you notice separately.
- no. 430 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Duisterweg e.o. scores
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Is Duisterweg e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Duisterweg e.o. comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Duisterweg 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, 18 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
Duisterweg e.o. has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 4%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+4%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
62% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,033 — 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 Duisterweg e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Duisterweg e.o. comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Duisterweg 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 Duisterweg e.o.?
In Duisterweg e.o. the police recorded 18 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Duisterweg e.o. calculated?
Duisterweg e.o. scores 9.8 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 Duisterweg 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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