neighbourhood in Ede
Zeeheldenbuurt
2,885 residents · postal code 6712 · Part of Ede-West, Ede
Everything for children close by, and little room
Zeeheldenbuurt reaches 9.4 without excelling anywhere in the way you might expect: no extreme property value, no exceptional quiet. What the neighbourhood has is that no pillar sags. The lowest, quiet and nature, still stands at 5.8.
The social assistance rate is the most striking figure here. It is less than half the Dutch level, while property value only just exceeds the national middle. That is a different kind of prosperity from expensive housing: here the income is steady rather than the property spectacular.
The 7.4 for amenities would be higher but for one distance. Supermarket, restaurant and station are all close, but the GP is almost two kilometres away — in a neighbourhood where almost three in ten residents are over 65, that is the distance that counts most.
- no. 967 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 66 in Ede
How Zeeheldenbuurt scores
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Is Zeeheldenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zeeheldenbuurt comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zeeheldenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 37 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
Zeeheldenbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,648 — 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 Zeeheldenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zeeheldenbuurt comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zeeheldenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Zeeheldenbuurt?
In Zeeheldenbuurt the police recorded 37 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Zeeheldenbuurt calculated?
Zeeheldenbuurt scores 9.4 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 Zeeheldenbuurt 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Ede
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Ede.