neighbourhood in Best
Heivelden
3,785 residents · postal code 5685 · Part of Centrum, Best
Well-off, but not spacious
Heivelden has no safety score, so its overall score of 9.0 rests on four pillars instead of five. What is there is strikingly clear-cut.
The 9.5 for wealth & income does not lean on a single component. Property values are far above the national median, the top income group is broader than nationally and the bottom one narrower, vacancy is minimal, and social assistance payments do not appear in the figures at all. That last point is rare in a neighbourhood of this size.
Set against that is a 6.1 for amenities. The supermarket and the primary school are close by, but the GP is a good kilometre away and the railway station further still. Those two together weigh enough to hold the score near the middle, even though the rest of daily life is within easy reach.
- no. 1,755 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 18 in Best
How Heivelden scores
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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
Heivelden has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4516%
NL median 22%
- 45–6536%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,981 — 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
How is the grade for Heivelden calculated?
Heivelden scores 9.0 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 Heivelden 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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