neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Laakse Tuinen
2,375 residents · postal code 3826 · Part of Vathorst-De Laak, Amersfoort
Safe, but not spacious
Only a few dozen neighbourhoods in the country reach a 10.0 for safety, and Laakse Tuinen is one of them: every offence type here is far below the national median, burglary at virtually zero.
The supermarket is more than two kilometres away. For the heaviest component of the amenities pillar that is a long distance, and it is the main reason the pillar stalls at a 4.8, the only one of the five scores below the national median.
Wealth & income points the other way: almost half of households are in the highest income group, no social assistance is recorded and property value is far above the median. Only vacancy, at more than twice the national level, is strikingly high for a neighbourhood built entirely after 2000.
- no. 756 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 26 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Laakse Tuinen scores
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Is Laakse Tuinen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Laakse Tuinen comes out at 8 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Laakse Tuinen 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, 14 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
Laakse Tuinen has strikingly many children under 15: 28%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1528%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4544%
NL median 22%
- 45–6517%
NL median 28%
- 65+3%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
56% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,830 — 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 Laakse Tuinen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Laakse Tuinen comes out at 8 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Laakse Tuinen 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 Laakse Tuinen?
In Laakse Tuinen the police recorded 14 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (8 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 Laakse Tuinen calculated?
Laakse Tuinen scores 9.6 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 Laakse Tuinen 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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