neighbourhood in De Bilt
Brandenburg
5,710 residents · postal code 3721 · Part of Bilthoven Zuid West, De Bilt
Everything close by, little space
Brandenburg has twice as much tree canopy within three hundred metres as the average Dutch neighbourhood and still gets no further than a 4.5 for quiet. The noise lies above the median and many people live on little ground; trees do not outweigh that.
The wealth score shows something you would not deduce from the individual figures. Property value, income distribution and vacancy all three lie roughly at the national middle, and yet wealth sticks at a 4.5. The largest deviation lies in one figure: the number of social assistance recipients lies many times above the national median. The 4.8 for safety also has a clear source — violence occurs almost twice as often here as usual, while burglary is rare.
- no. 7,036 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 19 of 21 in De Bilt
How Brandenburg scores
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Is Brandenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brandenburg comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 200 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
Brandenburg has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,602 — 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 Brandenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brandenburg comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Brandenburg?
In Brandenburg the police recorded 200 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Brandenburg calculated?
Brandenburg scores 6.0 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 Brandenburg 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of De Bilt.
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