neighbourhood in Arnhem
Hommelstraat
1,425 residents · postal code 6828 · Part of Spijkerkwartier, Arnhem
Everything close by, little space
At more than twelve thousand residents per square kilometre, Hommelstraat is among the most densely built neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and the quiet & nature pillar shows it: a 2.5, with barely any greenery within three hundred metres and noise exposure more than ten decibels above the median.
The crime figure is at nearly four times the national middle and leans heavily on property crime, which comes in more than four times above it. But violence too is at more than double the median, so the picture of nothing but stolen bicycles does not hold here.
Against that stands a 9.7 for amenities: a restaurant at a hundred metres, the supermarket at four hundred, the station at eight hundred. In a place where almost nobody owns and three-quarters live alone, that is what carries living here.
- no. 12,955 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 80 of 81 in Arnhem
How Hommelstraat scores
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Is Hommelstraat a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hommelstraat comes out at 88 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hommelstraat 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, 247 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
Hommelstraat has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 45%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–155%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4545%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
75% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,170 — 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 Hommelstraat a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hommelstraat comes out at 88 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hommelstraat 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 Hommelstraat?
In Hommelstraat the police recorded 247 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (88 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 Hommelstraat calculated?
Hommelstraat 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 Hommelstraat 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 Arnhem.
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