neighbourhood in Barneveld

Centrum Barneveld

1,860 residents · postal code 3771 · Part of Barneveld, Barneveld

Bottom 31% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Twelve neighbourhoods in the whole of the Netherlands score better on amenities than Centrum Barneveld. Supermarket, GP, restaurant and primary school are all within four hundred metres here, the station within six hundred. A 10.0 on that pillar is almost unreachable without a railway station in walking distance, and that is exactly what happens here.

The price sits in the safety pillar, which stalls at 2.9. Property offences run at almost three times the national middle, which fits a shopping centre the whole surrounding area passes through by day. But the violence figure is well above it too, so the picture of a place where only things disappear does not hold. Anyone living here shares the street with a municipality: more than three in ten residents are 65 or older, and six in ten households consist of one person.

no. 9,049 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 41 of 45 in Barneveld

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Is Centrum Barneveld a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

46.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.4 per 1,000

Property crime

26.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.2 per 1,000

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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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

0.6 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.5 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

€ 365,000

Welfare recipients

10.8 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

49%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

17%

Built after 2000

40%

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

4,350 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

43%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,040

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.4 km

Households with children

13%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum Barneveld has strikingly few children under 15: 7%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+32%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,350 — 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 Centrum Barneveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum Barneveld comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum Barneveld 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 Centrum Barneveld?

In Centrum Barneveld the police recorded 165 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Centrum Barneveld calculated?

Centrum Barneveld scores 4.8 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 Centrum Barneveld 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.