neighbourhood in Ede

Hoogbouw-Zuid

2,365 residents · postal code 6717 · Part of Ede-Zuid, Ede

Bottom 6% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

The social assistance rate in Hoogbouw-Zuid is more than fourteen times the national middle. That is not a side detail but the central fact of this neighbourhood: almost sixty per cent are in the lowest income group and only five percent in the highest. The property value is a good half of the median. All four wealth & income components point the same way, and the 2.7 is fully explained by that.

Quiet & nature gets no further than 2.8, which is a different story: almost twelve thousand residents per square kilometre, no water and a noise level of almost sixty decibels Lden.

The families pillar stands apart at 7.6, because distance weighs heaviest there and the primary school is seven hundred metres away. A third of households have children, well above the national picture — and that makes the low overall score sharper rather than less so.

no. 12,311 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 63 of 66 in Ede

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Is Hoogbouw-Zuid 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

39.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

17.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 115 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

1.1 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 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

€ 231,000

Welfare recipients

114.2 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

59%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

14%

Social housing

84%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

12%

Built after 2000

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

11,664 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,452

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.9 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

0.7 km

Households with children

34%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

0.3 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hoogbouw-Zuid has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,664 — 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 Hoogbouw-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoogbouw-Zuid comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hoogbouw-Zuid 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 Hoogbouw-Zuid?

In Hoogbouw-Zuid the police recorded 115 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Hoogbouw-Zuid calculated?

Hoogbouw-Zuid scores 2.9 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 Hoogbouw-Zuid 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.