neighbourhood in Apeldoorn
Matengaarde
2,740 residents · postal code 7329 · Part of Zuidoost, Apeldoorn
Everything close by, safety lags
The 2.9 for safety in Matengaarde is largely the work of theft: that figure runs at more than double the national median, while vandalism sits exactly on it. Violence and burglary are above the median, but not on the same scale. This is a neighbourhood where mainly possessions disappear.
The low families score has a cause other than distance. The primary school is six hundred metres away, so the heaviest item in that pillar comes out favourably. What pulls the score down is who lives here: one in nine residents is under fifteen, half of all households are single-person and nearly a third of residents are over sixty-five.
The 7.7 for quiet and nature fits a neighbourhood with more than three thousand residents per square kilometre, a tree canopy at almost double the national level and noise below the median.
- no. 10,882 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 73 of 87 in Apeldoorn
How Matengaarde scores
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Is Matengaarde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Matengaarde comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Matengaarde 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, 178 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
Matengaarde has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,153 — 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 Matengaarde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Matengaarde comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Matengaarde 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 Matengaarde?
In Matengaarde the police recorded 178 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 Matengaarde calculated?
Matengaarde scores 3.8 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 Matengaarde 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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