neighbourhood in Gooise Meren
Naarden Vesting
1,450 residents · postal code 1411 · Part of Naarden, Gooise Meren
Everything close by, nothing that lets it down
Almost four in ten square metres of Naarden Vesting is water. That is an exceptional share and it lifts the quiet & nature pillar to 8.0, despite a density far above the national middle and noise above it as well. Greenery and tree canopy do the rest.
The 7.0 for families needs explaining, because few children live here: under a tenth of residents are younger than fifteen and half of households are single-person. So that score comes not from the population but from distance — the primary school is around the corner, and distance makes up the largest part of the pillar. Reading a family neighbourhood into it would be a mistake. Wealth & income stands high at 8.5 and that is almost entirely property value, which runs more than two thirds above the median; vacancy, by contrast, climbs to nearly three times the national level.
- no. 714 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 18 of 53 in Gooise Meren
How Naarden Vesting scores
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Is Naarden Vesting a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Naarden Vesting comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 64 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
Naarden Vesting has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4513%
NL median 22%
- 45–6537%
NL median 28%
- 65+32%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,589 — 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 Naarden Vesting a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Naarden Vesting comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Naarden Vesting?
In Naarden Vesting the police recorded 64 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Naarden Vesting calculated?
Naarden Vesting scores 9.6 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 Naarden Vesting 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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