neighbourhood in Arnhem

Vredenburg

4,985 residents · postal code 6835 · Part of Vredenburg/Kronenburg, Arnhem

Bottom 19% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Vredenburg has everything within walking distance — shop, GP and school are around the corner — and scores an 8.3 for amenities with it. The railway station is the exception: that is more than four kilometres away. Half of households have one occupant.

The safety score of 3.6 comes from one type of crime. Violence is twice as common here as nationally, and that is the component that counts the heaviest in that pillar. Burglary, by contrast, sits exactly on the Dutch median and theft only slightly above it.

Quiet produces a 5.9, higher than you would expect at this density. There is more tree canopy than usual, there is water nearby and the greenery comes out just below the national figure. The wealth pillar meanwhile stays low, with property values far below the median and a social assistance figure that lies more than three times above it.

no. 10,601 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 47 of 81 in Arnhem

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Is Vredenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vredenburg comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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.

Total crime

33.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

11.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 224 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

4.1 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 272,000

Welfare recipients

26.1 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

38%

Social housing

20%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

49%

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

5,252 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

52%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,853

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.6 km

Households with children

25%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vredenburg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,252 — 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 Vredenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vredenburg comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Vredenburg?

In Vredenburg the police recorded 224 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Vredenburg calculated?

Vredenburg scores 3.9 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 Vredenburg 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.