neighbourhood in Ede

Centrum Ede

4,075 residents · postal code 6711 · Part of Ede-Oost, Ede

Bottom 7% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Reported offences in Centrum Ede run at more than three times the national median, and unlike in many town-centre areas it is not only about things. Violence here happens four times as often as nationally, and so does property crime. That explains the 2.7 for safety.

The population matches: two thirds of households are single-person and only six per cent of residents are under fifteen. With a primary school six hundred metres away, the families pillar still stalls at a 5.1.

On wealth & income the components do not point the same way. The share of low incomes lands exactly on the national median; what pushes the score down to a 3.5 is a property value far below the median.

no. 12,215 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 62 of 66 in Ede

Compare with…View on the map

Do some of these matter more to you than others?

Is Centrum Ede a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

80.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

9.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

39.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 530 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

The safest neighbourhoods in Ede →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Ede →

The figures ⌄

Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

1.2 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

4.2 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 km

Tick = Dutch median

Best amenities in Ede →

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.

Property value

€ 289,000

Welfare recipients

24.5 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

41%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

14%

Built after 2000

43%

Tick = Dutch median

The most affluent neighbourhoods in Ede →

The figures ⌄

Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

6,696 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

41%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,505

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

The quietest, greenest neighbourhoods in Ede →

The figures ⌄

Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.6 km

Households with children

10%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

2.2 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

The best neighbourhoods for families in Ede →

Who lives here

Centrum Ede has strikingly few children under 15: 6%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4534%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+25%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
65% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,696 — 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 Centrum Ede a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum Ede comes out at 80 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum Ede is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Centrum Ede?

In Centrum Ede the police recorded 530 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (80 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 Centrum Ede calculated?

Centrum Ede scores 3.0 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 Centrum Ede 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.