neighbourhood in Arnhem

St. Marten

1,650 residents · postal code 6821 · Part of St. Marten/Sonsbeek, Arnhem

Bottom 14% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

At more than fifteen thousand residents per square kilometre, St. Marten is exceptionally densely built, and that pushes the quiet & nature pillar down to a 2.7: greenery within three hundred metres comes to a little over half the national middle and noise exposure is four decibels above it.

The 3.9 for wealth & income does not come from incomes. The share of high incomes sits almost on the national median and the share of low incomes barely above it. What drags the score down is property values, far below the median, together with a rate of social assistance more than six times the national middle.

Against that stands the highest possible access: supermarket, GP, school, restaurant and station are all within a kilometre, good for a 9.9.

no. 11,332 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 57 of 81 in Arnhem

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Is St. Marten a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, St. Marten comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: St.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

38.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.7 per 1,000

Property crime

13.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 106 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 336,000

Welfare recipients

48.5 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

35%

Social housing

44%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

18%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

15,206 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

31%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

4,653

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.3 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

18%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

St. Marten has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 39%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4539%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,206 — 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 St. Marten a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, St. Marten comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: St. Marten 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 St. Marten?

In St. Marten the police recorded 106 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 St. Marten calculated?

St. Marten scores 3.5 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 St. Marten 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.