neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Smallepad e.o.
415 residents · postal code 3811 · Part of Nederberg, Amersfoort
Everything close by, little space
Smallepad e.o. has just over four hundred residents and registers four times the national number of offences per thousand residents. Unlike most neighbourhoods with such a figure, it is not one type: violence, vandalism and property crime all sit far above the Dutch middle. Vandalism stands out furthest, at six times the national median.
The population is exceptionally one-sided. Three quarters of households consist of one person, there are virtually no children and virtually no over-65s, and not a single home is owner-occupied or single-family. On wealth & income not everything points the same way: the share of households in the lowest income group is in fact far below the national level, while the share of social assistance is six times above it and property value sits more than half below the median. The 2.6 for quiet & nature fits a noise level twelve decibels above the Dutch middle.
- no. 12,953 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 130 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Smallepad e.o. scores
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Is Smallepad e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Smallepad e.o. comes out at 97 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Smallepad e.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 117 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
Smallepad e.o. has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 75%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–152%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4575%
NL median 22%
- 45–656%
NL median 28%
- 65+1%
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
1.2 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
76% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
1% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,337 — 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 Smallepad e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Smallepad e.o. comes out at 97 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Smallepad e.o. 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 Smallepad e.o.?
In Smallepad e.o. the police recorded 117 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (97 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 Smallepad e.o. calculated?
Smallepad e.o. scores 2.6 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 Smallepad e.o. 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Amersfoort
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Amersfoort.
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