neighbourhood in Amersfoort

Rivierenbuurt-West

1,280 residents · postal code 3812 · Part of Soesterkwartier, Amersfoort

Top 31% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

A 9.9 for families is almost impossible to improve on, and Rivierenbuurt-West achieves it with a primary school three hundred metres away and four in ten households with children. More than one in five residents is under fifteen, a lot by national standards.

The 5.1 for safety requires precision. It is mainly about vandalism, more than three times the national median, and about property crime that sits slightly above it; burglary is practically absent. For residents that is a different kind of burden than a wave of break-ins. On wealth & income the 5.2 falls apart: the income distribution does not compare unfavourably with the country, but the share of social assistance is four times the national level. And with a 2.8 for quiet & nature this is emphatically urban ground — densely built, little greenery, plenty of traffic noise.

no. 3,983 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 70 of 131 in Amersfoort

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Is Rivierenbuurt-West a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

37.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

10.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

8.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 66 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.2 km

Train station

2.9 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.1 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.0 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 386,000

Welfare recipients

31.3 per 1,000

High incomes

20%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

51%

Social housing

46%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

82%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

6,844 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,785

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.3 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

22%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Rivierenbuurt-West has strikingly many children under 15: 22%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1522%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4534%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+13%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,844 — 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 Rivierenbuurt-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Rivierenbuurt-West comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rivierenbuurt-West 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 Rivierenbuurt-West?

In Rivierenbuurt-West the police recorded 66 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Rivierenbuurt-West calculated?

Rivierenbuurt-West scores 7.7 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 Rivierenbuurt-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.