neighbourhood in Barneveld

Rootselaar-West

4,405 residents · postal code 3772 · Part of Barneveld, Barneveld

Top 21% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Rootselaar-West records less than six tenths of the national number of offences and so reaches a 9.0 for safety; burglary and property offences both sit well below the median.

The wealth & income pillar shows a different picture, and not one you would read off the housing. More than nine in ten homes are family houses and vacancy is minimal, but the share of low incomes is clearly above the national level and the social assistance rate is almost three times the median. Those two push the pillar down to a 4.8, since the housing itself counts for only a tenth of it.

With more than six thousand residents per square kilometre this is a densely built neighbourhood, and that is the main brake on the 5.2 for quiet & nature — green space within three hundred metres stays below the national median.

no. 2,719 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 22 of 45 in Barneveld

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Is Rootselaar-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Rootselaar-West comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Rootselaar-West 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.

Total crime

14.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

3.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 72 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

0.8 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

1.3 km

Library

1.5 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

€ 403,000

Welfare recipients

22.7 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

62%

Social housing

35%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

91%

Built after 2000

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

6,263 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

45%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,812

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

0.7 km

Households with children

44%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

21%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Rootselaar-West has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1521%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,263 — 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-West a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Rootselaar-West?

In Rootselaar-West the police recorded 72 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 Rootselaar-West calculated?

Rootselaar-West scores 8.4 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-West 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.