neighbourhood in Barneveld
De Vaarst
2,500 residents · postal code 3771 · Part of Barneveld, Barneveld
Safe streets, thinner wallets
The supermarket is nearly two kilometres away and the restaurant just as far, which explains why De Vaarst stays below the national middle at 6.0 for amenities while the GP and the school are close by. Distance to a supermarket is the heaviest-weighted component in that pillar.
Against that stands an 8.1 for quiet & nature: nearly seventy per cent greenery in the immediate surroundings and more than twice as much tree canopy as nationally. The 8.7 for safety has one crack, because break-ins are recorded almost three times as often as the Dutch average, while violence, vandalism and theft stay well below the median. Wealth & income comes out at 5.8 and that figure is close to the national average: incomes and property value barely deviate, only social assistance is claimed more often.
- no. 1,628 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 45 in Barneveld
How De Vaarst scores
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Is De Vaarst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Vaarst comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Vaarst is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 38 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
De Vaarst has strikingly many children under 15: 22%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,485 — 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 De Vaarst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Vaarst comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Vaarst is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Vaarst?
In De Vaarst the police recorded 38 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 De Vaarst calculated?
De Vaarst scores 9.1 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 De Vaarst 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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