neighbourhood in Amersfoort

Het Gein

1,200 residents · postal code 3813 · Part of Schothorst-Noord, Amersfoort

Bottom 45% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Het Gein registers almost four times as many offences per thousand residents as the average Dutch neighbourhood, and three quarters of those are property crime — more than seven times the national median. Violence, by contrast, is below it. Anyone living here is more likely to face theft than danger on the street, and that is why the safety figure does not sink to the floor at 4.3: violence weighs heaviest in that pillar.

Vandalism here is more than four times the national level, and with twelve hundred residents those are numbers that mean something. Against that stands a neighbourhood with everything within a kilometre and an 8.1 for amenities. The wealth & income figure of 5.9 leans mainly on a below-median property value and a raised share of social assistance; the income distribution barely deviates from the country.

no. 7,244 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 96 of 131 in Amersfoort

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Is Het Gein a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Gein comes out at 89 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Gein is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

89.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

67.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

9.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 176 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

2.6 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

3.0 km

Café

2.2 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

3.0 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 382,000

Welfare recipients

16.7 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

74%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

72%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

7,763 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

51%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,497

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.8 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Het Gein looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,763 — 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 Het Gein a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Gein comes out at 89 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Gein is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Het Gein?

In Het Gein the police recorded 176 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (89 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 Het Gein calculated?

Het Gein scores 5.8 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 Het Gein 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.