neighbourhood in Barneveld

Buitengebied Voorthuizen

3,715 residents · postal code 3781 · Part of Voorthuizen, Barneveld

Top 32% in the Netherlands

Room to spare, amenities further off

With fewer than two hundred residents per square kilometre, Buitengebied Voorthuizen is thinly populated, and that is exactly what produces the 9.7 for quiet & nature: greenery one and a half times above the national median, a broad tree canopy and little noise.

That space comes at a price, and it shows in the families score. More than four in ten households here have children — exceptionally many by national standards — and yet the pillar gets no further than 5.3. The primary school is nearly two kilometres away, and distance to schooling and childcare is by far the heaviest component of that pillar. For a family that means dropping off and picking up every school day.

The wealth & income figures are largely favourable, with high property values and hardly any social assistance; only vacancy is above the national level. That yields a 7.7.

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no. 29 of 45 in Barneveld

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Is Buitengebied Voorthuizen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buitengebied Voorthuizen comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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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

25.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

6.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 142 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

1.9 km

GP practice

1.9 km

Train station

4.3 km

Restaurant

1.3 km

Hospital

7.0 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

2.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 580,000

Welfare recipients

2.7 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

70%

Social housing

12%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

81%

Built after 2000

53%

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

178 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

80%

Trees nearby

20%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

610

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.4 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

1.7 km

Households with children

44%

Childcare

1.7 km

Secondary school

6.3 km

Residents under 15

21%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Buitengebied Voorthuizen has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1521%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
178 — 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 Voorthuizen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buitengebied Voorthuizen comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Buitengebied Voorthuizen?

In Buitengebied Voorthuizen the police recorded 142 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Voorthuizen calculated?

Buitengebied Voorthuizen scores 7.7 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 Voorthuizen 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.