neighbourhood in Ede

Meulunteren/De Valk

1,810 residents · postal code 6741 · Part of Lunteren, Ede

Top 5% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

Six neighbourhoods in the whole of the Netherlands score higher on safety than Meulunteren/De Valk. All four offence types run far below the national middle here: violence at around a sixth of it, burglary lower still. With a 10.0 on that pillar and a 9.3 for quiet & nature, the overall score lands at 9.7.

The price sits in amenities, which stay at 3.6: supermarket and GP are both more than three kilometres away. Even so the families pillar is not bad at 6.1, because the primary school is a bit over a kilometre off — closer than anything else reachable from here. More than half the households have children and a quarter of residents are under fifteen.

The property value is almost double the national median and the social assistance rate is zero.

no. 591 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 4 of 66 in Ede

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Is Meulunteren/De Valk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Meulunteren/De Valk comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meulunteren/De Valk is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

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

Total crime

10.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

3.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 25 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

3.5 km

GP practice

3.3 km

Train station

5.1 km

Restaurant

2.2 km

Hospital

5.7 km

Café

2.8 km

Library

4.1 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

€ 772,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

25%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

87%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

87%

Built after 2000

23%

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

138 inw/km²

Noise level

42 dB

Green surroundings

71%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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

1.4 km

Households with children

55%

Childcare

2.3 km

Secondary school

5.0 km

Residents under 15

26%

Tick = Dutch median

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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

Is Meulunteren/De Valk a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Meulunteren/De Valk?

In Meulunteren/De Valk the police recorded 25 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Meulunteren/De Valk calculated?

Meulunteren/De Valk scores 9.7 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 Meulunteren/De Valk 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.