neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Puntenburg
1,865 residents · postal code 3812 · Part of Soesterkwartier, Amersfoort
Everything close by, little space
Puntenburg has more than fifteen thousand residents per square kilometre and scores a 2.5 for quiet & nature, near the floor of that pillar. Under thirty per cent greenery within three hundred metres, a tree canopy below the national middle and traffic noise nine decibels above it: every component points the same way.
The 3.0 for safety is almost entirely property crime. Here it is more than three times the national median and on its own accounts for most of the total. Violence too occurs more often than nationally, so this is not merely a matter of disappearing bicycles. On wealth & income the components collide: a third of households are in the highest income group and the lowest group is narrow, while the share of social assistance reaches almost three times the Dutch level.
- no. 11,230 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 122 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Puntenburg scores
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Is Puntenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Puntenburg comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Puntenburg 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, 135 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
Puntenburg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 50%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4550%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,472 — 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 Puntenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Puntenburg comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Puntenburg 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 Puntenburg?
In Puntenburg the police recorded 135 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Puntenburg calculated?
Puntenburg scores 3.6 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 Puntenburg 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Amersfoort.
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