neighbourhood in Arnhem
Spijkerbuurt
3,385 residents · postal code 6828 · Part of Spijkerkwartier, Arnhem
Everything close by, little space
For every thousand residents of Spijkerbuurt, 32.8 reported offences are property crime, more than three times the national median; violence is only slightly above it and burglary barely at all. That is the profile of a dense inner-city area eight minutes from the station where things go missing, not of a place where you would rather stay indoors after dark — although together it does produce the 2.7 for safety.
Meanwhile the 7.4 for families says nothing here about how many children live in the area. Almost two thirds of that pillar is the distance to school and childcare, and the primary school is around the corner. The age profile points the other way: three quarters of households are single-person, and the share of children is as low as you will find in a city neighbourhood.
- no. 11,893 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 64 of 81 in Arnhem
How Spijkerbuurt scores
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Is Spijkerbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spijkerbuurt comes out at 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spijkerbuurt 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, 413 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
Spijkerbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 46%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–155%
NL median 14%
- 15–2522%
NL median 11%
- 25–4546%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
74% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
14,290 — 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 Spijkerbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spijkerbuurt comes out at 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spijkerbuurt 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 Spijkerbuurt?
In Spijkerbuurt the police recorded 413 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (66 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 Spijkerbuurt calculated?
Spijkerbuurt scores 3.2 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 Spijkerbuurt 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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