neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Park Schothorst
60 residents · postal code 3822 · Part of Schothorst-Noord, Amersfoort
Well-off, but not carefree
Park Schothorst has sixty residents, and with every figure that is the first thing to know. The offence rate is above the national median, but at this size a single report already stands for more than sixteen per thousand residents; no pattern can be read from the 3.5 for safety.
What does give something to hold on to is the surroundings and the property. Property value here is almost seventy per cent above the Dutch median, and together with zero vacancy that produces a 9.8 for wealth & income. Statistics Netherlands does not publish incomes and social assistance where there are so few households, so those are missing. The 9.8 for quiet & nature comes from very thin building, plenty of greenery and a noise level far below the national middle. For families it stops at a 5.5, with the primary school seven hundred metres away and few children around.
- no. 1,845 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 46 of 131 in Amersfoort
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Park Schothorst scores
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Is Park Schothorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Park Schothorst comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Park Schothorst 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.
In 2025, 10 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
Park Schothorst has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 6%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4516%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
67 — far less 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 Park Schothorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Park Schothorst comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Park Schothorst 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 Park Schothorst?
In Park Schothorst the police recorded 10 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Park Schothorst calculated?
Park Schothorst 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 Park Schothorst 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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