neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Kattenbroek-Noord
1,730 residents · postal code 3823 · Part of Kattenbroek, Amersfoort
Everything for children close by, and little room
Kattenbroek-Noord scores a 9.3 for families and a 3.0 for quiet & nature, and those are two sides of the same coin. The school is close by and nearly half of households have children; at the same time the share of greenery within three hundred metres is below the national middle, tree canopy is thinner than average and traffic noise comes out well above it. Compactly built residential ground produces short distances and little room around them.
The wealth & income pillar, an 8.2, is strikingly consistent: property value above the median, more high and fewer low incomes than nationally, social assistance below it and hardly any vacancy. Not one component contradicts another.
On safety the picture is more mixed than the 8.2 suggests. Violence, property crime and vandalism sit below the national middle, while burglary runs well above it — that is the one thing that stands out here.
- no. 2,002 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 48 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Kattenbroek-Noord scores
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Is Kattenbroek-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kattenbroek-Noord comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kattenbroek-Noord 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, 28 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
Kattenbroek-Noord has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,416 — 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 Kattenbroek-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kattenbroek-Noord comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kattenbroek-Noord 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 Kattenbroek-Noord?
In Kattenbroek-Noord the police recorded 28 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 Kattenbroek-Noord calculated?
Kattenbroek-Noord scores 8.9 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 Kattenbroek-Noord 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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