neighbourhood in Apeldoorn
Matenhorst
2,895 residents · postal code 7328 · Part of Zuidoost, Apeldoorn
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Matenhorst shows how far two pillars can diverge within the same streets. The 8.6 for safety rests on a breakdown in which none of the four offence types rises above the national middle value: violence and property offences sit clearly below it, burglary exactly on the Dutch level.
The 3.6 for wealth and income comes from the other direction. Property value is two thirds of the national middle value and the social assistance rate more than four times that level; the top income group is narrower here than elsewhere. What the pillar does not measure, and what the neighbourhood does have, is proximity: supermarket, GP and primary school are all three under six hundred metres away and the station less than two kilometres.
For anyone living here, that difference is the practical story: a neighbourhood that is safe and complete, and where money is tight.
- no. 3,696 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 30 of 87 in Apeldoorn
How Matenhorst scores
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Is Matenhorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Matenhorst comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 60 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 Matenhorst looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,285 — 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 Matenhorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Matenhorst comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Matenhorst?
In Matenhorst the police recorded 60 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Matenhorst calculated?
Matenhorst scores 7.9 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 Matenhorst 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 Apeldoorn.
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