neighbourhood in Arnhem
Utrechtsestraat
1,280 residents · postal code 6811 · Part of Centrum, Arnhem
Everything close by, safety lags
Of all the crime figures for Utrechtsestraat, violence is the most telling: it is at nearly five times the national median, while property crime sits nearly four times above it. This is not, then, a centre where only things go missing; both heavily weighted components stand high, and together they produce a 3.0 for safety.
The wealth & income pillar comes to a 3.1 and is weak on every component: property values far below the median, few high incomes, many low ones, and a rate of social assistance nearly seven times the national middle.
The housing stock is almost entirely flats and nearly eight in ten households consist of one person. Children are rare here, and that weighs on the families pillar despite a primary school four hundred metres away.
- no. 12,490 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 70 of 81 in Arnhem
How Utrechtsestraat scores
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Is Utrechtsestraat a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Utrechtsestraat comes out at 71 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Utrechtsestraat 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, 165 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
Utrechtsestraat has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 28%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–152%
NL median 14%
- 15–2528%
NL median 11%
- 25–4545%
NL median 22%
- 45–6514%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
79% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
5% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,219 — 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 Utrechtsestraat a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Utrechtsestraat comes out at 71 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Utrechtsestraat 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 Utrechtsestraat?
In Utrechtsestraat the police recorded 165 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (71 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 Utrechtsestraat calculated?
Utrechtsestraat scores 2.8 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 Utrechtsestraat 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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