neighbourhood in Barneveld
Rootselaar-Oost
1,735 residents · postal code 3772 · Part of Barneveld, Barneveld
Safe, but not spacious
Rootselaar-Oost consists for ninety-five per cent of single-family homes and at the same time holds almost eight thousand residents per square kilometre. That combination is unusual and explains the 2.8 for quiet & nature: it is not noise that drags the score down — the noise level is only slightly above the national middle — but density, together with little greenery and a tree canopy below the median. Terraced housing can stand as tightly packed as a block of flats.
The 9.8 for safety is of another order: all four offence types run below the national middle here, and the total stays well under half of it. Wealth & income lags behind at 5.2, and that is not down to the housing: the property value sits just under the median. It is social assistance, three times the national middle, that pulls the score towards the middle.
- no. 3,077 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 45 in Barneveld
How Rootselaar-Oost scores
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Is Rootselaar-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rootselaar-Oost comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Rootselaar-Oost 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, 11 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
Rootselaar-Oost has strikingly many children under 15: 23%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
49% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,935 — 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 Rootselaar-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rootselaar-Oost comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Rootselaar-Oost 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 Rootselaar-Oost?
In Rootselaar-Oost the police recorded 11 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Rootselaar-Oost calculated?
Rootselaar-Oost scores 8.2 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 Rootselaar-Oost 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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