neighbourhood in Ede
Meulunteren/De Valk
1,810 residents · postal code 6741 · Part of Lunteren, Ede
Out on the Ede countryside, Meulunteren/De Valk is emphatically rural: at 138 residents per square kilometre, one of the most thinly populated neighbourhoods in this batch. Safety earns a 10.0 — among the ten best nationally — and the average home value of €772,000 runs to nearly double the national midpoint of €422,000. More than half of households have children. Amenities lie far off: supermarket and GP beyond three kilometres, which yields a 3.6.
- no. 591 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 66 in Ede
How Meulunteren/De Valk scores
Do some of these matter more to you than others?
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 25 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.
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
Meulunteren/De Valk has strikingly many children under 15: 26%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1526%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
3.4 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
55% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
138 — far less 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
How is the grade for Meulunteren/De Valk calculated?
Meulunteren/De Valk scores 9.7 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh four equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income and quiet & nature — and see where Meulunteren/De Valk lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the four grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
Is Meulunteren/De Valk a safe neighbourhood?
Meulunteren/De Valk scores 10.0 on safety, based on registered crimes per 1,000 people present (10.9 per year). The national median is around 24.1.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Ede
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Ede.
Highest grades
Lowest grades
More about this area
Nearby neighbourhoods
Buitengebied Kootwijkerbroek
Barneveld
Kootwijkerbroek-west
Barneveld
Wekeromse Meent
Ede
Kootwijkerbroek
Barneveld
Wekerom dorp
Ede
Westeneng
Ede