neighbourhood in Amersfoort
Vermeerkwartier-West
1,815 residents · postal code 3817 · Part of Vermeerkwartier, Amersfoort
Safe, but not spacious
With a 9.9, Vermeerkwartier-West belongs among the country's strongest neighbourhoods, and the only figure that does not join in is the 3.7 for quiet & nature. That is the bill for the location: more than eight thousand residents per square kilometre and less greenery within three hundred metres than the average Dutch neighbourhood. Traffic noise is exactly at the national median.
Beyond that, everything points the same way. All four types of offence stay below the Dutch level, which produces a 9.4 for safety. On wealth & income the same holds for every component: a property value well above the median, almost three in ten households in the highest income group, a narrow lowest group, little social assistance and hardly any vacancy. And with the primary school six hundred metres away and more than a third of households with children, families comes to a 9.3.
- no. 243 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 131 in Amersfoort
How Vermeerkwartier-West scores
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Is Vermeerkwartier-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vermeerkwartier-West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vermeerkwartier-West 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, 32 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
The age profile of Vermeerkwartier-West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,431 — 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 Vermeerkwartier-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vermeerkwartier-West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vermeerkwartier-West 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 Vermeerkwartier-West?
In Vermeerkwartier-West the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Vermeerkwartier-West calculated?
Vermeerkwartier-West scores 9.9 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 Vermeerkwartier-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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Amersfoort.
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