neighbourhood in Barneveld

Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek

3,910 residents · postal code 3774 · Part of Kootwijkerbroek, Barneveld

Top 15% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

More than half of the households in Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek have children and almost three in ten residents are under fifteen. Even so, the families pillar stops at a 5.2, and the explanation is distance: the primary school is over two kilometres away, and school distance together with childcare and secondary education makes up by far the largest part of that figure.

The same distance explains the 3.9 for amenities. Shop, GP and restaurant are all kilometres away. You do not live here without a car.

What you get in return sits in two other figures: a 9.4 for quiet & nature, with about the lowest noise level you will find in the Netherlands and surroundings that are overwhelmingly green, and a 9.8 for safety, with less than a third of the national number of reported offences.

no. 1,836 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 17 of 45 in Barneveld

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Is Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek comes out at 7 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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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

7.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

1.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 34 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

2.4 km

GP practice

2.3 km

Train station

7.0 km

Restaurant

4.2 km

Hospital

7.1 km

Café

2.5 km

Library

2.4 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

€ 618,000

Welfare recipients

2.6 per 1,000

High incomes

24%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

79%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

78%

Built after 2000

30%

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

164 inw/km²

Noise level

45 dB

Green surroundings

83%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

107

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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

2.1 km

Households with children

54%

Childcare

2.2 km

Secondary school

7.0 km

Residents under 15

29%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek has strikingly many children under 15: 29%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1529%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+13%
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
3.4 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
54% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
164 — far less 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 Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek?

In Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek the police recorded 34 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (7 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 Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek calculated?

Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek scores 8.9 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 Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek 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.