neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Leusderkwartier-West
1,940 residents · postal code 3817 · Part of Leusderkwartier, Amersfoort
Well-off, but not spacious
Leusderkwartier-West's overall score of 9.9 leans heavily on the wealth & income pillar, and that pillar is unusually consistent here. Property values sit well above the national middle, high incomes occur almost twice as often as in the average neighbourhood, low incomes less often, there is no social assistance at all and vacancy stays below the median. Usually at least one component points the other way; here not one does.
The 6.0 for quiet & nature is the counterweight, and it is not because the place is bare. Tree canopy within three hundred metres is more than twice as dense as is common nationally, and the share of greenery is above the median too. What drags the pillar down is the built-up area itself: this is densely populated ground, and traffic noise comes out just above the national middle. Trees on your doorstep and quiet are not the same thing here.
On safety the picture splits: violence and vandalism stay below the national middle, burglary sits slightly above it.
- no. 229 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Leusderkwartier-West scores
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Is Leusderkwartier-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leusderkwartier-West comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 54 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
Leusderkwartier-West has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,171 — 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 Leusderkwartier-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leusderkwartier-West comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Leusderkwartier-West?
In Leusderkwartier-West the police recorded 54 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Leusderkwartier-West calculated?
Leusderkwartier-West scores 9.9 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 Leusderkwartier-West 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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