neighbourhood in Beekdaelen
Puth
2,000 residents · postal code 6155 · Part of Wijk 05, Beekdaelen
Safe streets, thinner wallets
In Puth all four offence types are below the national median, burglary and violence at a fraction of it, and that yields a 9.9 for safety — among the two hundred and fifty safest neighbourhoods in the country.
The wealth & income pillar of 4.9 is a case apart, because two of the four income components point nowhere: the high-income share and the low-income share both sit exactly on the national median, and so does vacancy. What determines the score is the property value, eighty thousand below the national median, alongside a rate of social assistance roughly twice the national one.
The amenities are unevenly spread. GP, primary school and restaurant are within six hundred metres, but the supermarket is almost two kilometres away. For daily shopping that is the difference between walking and taking the car.
- no. 2,085 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 28 in Beekdaelen
How Puth scores
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Is Puth a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Puth comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Puth 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, 36 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
The age profile of Puth looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,301 — 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 Puth a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Puth comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Puth 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 Puth?
In Puth the police recorded 36 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Puth calculated?
Puth scores 8.8 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 Puth 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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