neighbourhood in Gooise Meren
Ministerpark
2,505 residents · postal code 1412 · Part of Naarden, Gooise Meren
Everything for children close by, and little room
Ministerpark is among the sixty highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, with an overall score of 10.0. That is not the result of one outlier but of four pillars all coming out high: safety, amenities, wealth & income and families are all four well above the middle.
The exception is quiet & nature, at 5.2. Greenery and tree canopy are amply present in the immediate surroundings, but more than six thousand people live per square kilometre and that pushes the pillar down. On wealth & income one thing is worth noting: the share of households with a high income is twice the national level, while social assistance lands exactly on the median. The latter is less self-evident at these property values than it seems.
- no. 57 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 53 in Gooise Meren
How Ministerpark scores
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Is Ministerpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ministerpark comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ministerpark 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, 56 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
Ministerpark has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,211 — 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 Ministerpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ministerpark comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ministerpark 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 Ministerpark?
In Ministerpark the police recorded 56 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Ministerpark calculated?
Ministerpark scores 10.0 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 Ministerpark 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Gooise Meren.
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