neighbourhood in Baarn
Professorenwijk
2,150 residents · postal code 3741 · Part of Baarn-Noord, Eemdal en Eemland, Baarn
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Two thirds of the Professorenwijk lies within three hundred metres of greenery, well above the national median, and yet the quiet & nature pillar gets no further than 5.7. The noise level here is almost eleven decibels above the national middle, and noise weighs as heavily in that pillar as greenery.
The wealth & income pillar is the weakest of the five, and not because of property value — that stays only slightly below the median. It lies in the other components: the top income group here is a third smaller than nationally, the share in the lowest larger, and the social assistance rate is more than five times the Dutch one.
On safety the number of reports is below the national middle, with property crime at just over half the median; violence is the exception and sits above it.
- no. 3,743 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 21 in Baarn
How Professorenwijk scores
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Is Professorenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Professorenwijk comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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.
In 2025, 53 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
Professorenwijk has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,335 — 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 Professorenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Professorenwijk comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Professorenwijk?
In Professorenwijk the police recorded 53 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Professorenwijk calculated?
Professorenwijk scores 7.9 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 Professorenwijk 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 Baarn.
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