neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Polderbuurt-Noord
1,930 residents · postal code 3825 · Part of Vathorst-Centrum, Amersfoort
Everything for children close by, and little room
Polderbuurt-Noord reaches a 9.8 for families, and for once that score is not just a distance effect: the primary school is five hundred metres away and more than six in ten households have children. Both components of the pillar point the same way.
The wealth & income pillar, an 8.6, deserves more nuance than the score suggests. Property value, incomes and vacancy all look good, but the social assistance rate runs at almost twice the national middle. That is the exception in an otherwise favourable picture, and the property value weighs heavily enough to keep the score up.
The 3.2 for quiet & nature puts the neighbourhood in the country's bottom ten per cent. Noise is not the problem — it sits below the median — but greenery and tree canopy are, and the ground is densely built. Quiet, then, it is; green it is not.
- no. 429 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Polderbuurt-Noord scores
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Is Polderbuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Polderbuurt-Noord comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Polderbuurt-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, 24 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
Polderbuurt-Noord has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 6%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
62% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,871 — 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 Polderbuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Polderbuurt-Noord comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Polderbuurt-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 Polderbuurt-Noord?
In Polderbuurt-Noord the police recorded 24 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Polderbuurt-Noord calculated?
Polderbuurt-Noord scores 9.8 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 Polderbuurt-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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