neighbourhood in Culemborg

Achter de Poort

1,515 residents · postal code 4105 · Part of Culemborg West, Culemborg

Bottom 46% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Achter de Poort delivers the sharpest contrast a neighbourhood can hold: a 9.6 for families next to a 2.7 for quiet & nature. Both figures come from the same built fabric. Almost eight thousand residents per square kilometre means the primary school is five hundred metres away and four in ten households have children; it also means little greenery, a tree canopy below the national middle, and noise well above it.

Wealth & income stays at 3.5, and that is mainly social assistance, running more than six times the national middle here, plus a property value far below the median. What does not fit that picture: vacancy stays low and offences, at 6.3, stay close to the national middle. This is a densely built neighbourhood on a tight budget, not one where things are going wrong.

no. 7,183 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 18 of 20 in Culemborg

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Is Achter de Poort a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Achter de Poort comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

28.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

9.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 54 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

0.7 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.7 km

Café

1.1 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.9 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

€ 336,000

Welfare recipients

52.8 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

43%

Social housing

53%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

72%

Built after 2000

35%

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

7,882 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

45%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,813

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.5 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Achter de Poort has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 13%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+13%
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
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,882 — 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 Achter de Poort a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Achter de Poort comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Achter de Poort?

In Achter de Poort the police recorded 54 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Achter de Poort calculated?

Achter de Poort scores 5.9 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 Achter de Poort 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.