neighbourhood in Bunnik
Werkhoven
2,070 residents · postal code 3985 · Part of Werkhoven, Bunnik
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Werkhoven records about a third of the national number of offences, with all four types below the median — hence the 9.8 for safety, the highest score this neighbourhood has.
The supermarket more than three kilometres away is the other side of the same coin and holds amenities at 5.4, while the GP, school and restaurant are around the corner. For anyone shopping here the car is the deciding factor, not walking distance.
The 5.7 for quiet & nature is the surprise. Seventy per cent of the immediate surroundings is green, well above the national middle, but the tree canopy does not reach half the median and water is absent altogether. Plenty of open green, little canopy: the pillar measures both, and only the first is present here.
- no. 1,186 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 8 in Bunnik
How Werkhoven scores
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Is Werkhoven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Werkhoven comes out at 8 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Werkhoven 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, 10 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 Werkhoven looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,407 — 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 Werkhoven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Werkhoven comes out at 8 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Werkhoven 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 Werkhoven?
In Werkhoven the police recorded 10 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (8 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 Werkhoven calculated?
Werkhoven scores 9.3 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 Werkhoven 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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