neighbourhood in Hilversum
Langgewenstbuurt
1,720 residents · postal code 1211 · Part of Centrum, Hilversum
Everything close by, little space
A restaurant a hundred metres away, station and supermarket within a kilometre: Langgewenstbuurt has the accessibility of a city centre, with a 9.7 for amenities. The overall score still sticks at 3.3, because the other four pillars are all below five.
Safety is the sharpest of those. The number of reported offences is almost three times as high as in the median Dutch neighbourhood, and it is almost entirely property crime: that comes out four times above the national middle, while burglary hardly occurs. Violence is nearly double the median, though, so the frame of vanishing belongings alone does not fully cover it.
Wealth & income is partly what it appears to be: property values are below the national median and social assistance well above it, but the share of high incomes is above the middle and the share of low incomes below it. A neighbourhood with a broad middle group and many people living alone.
- no. 11,749 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 37 of 37 in Hilversum
How Langgewenstbuurt scores
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Is Langgewenstbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Langgewenstbuurt comes out at 64 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Langgewenstbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 218 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
Langgewenstbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 47%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4547%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,348 — 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 Langgewenstbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Langgewenstbuurt comes out at 64 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Langgewenstbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Langgewenstbuurt?
In Langgewenstbuurt the police recorded 218 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (64 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 Langgewenstbuurt calculated?
Langgewenstbuurt scores 3.3 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 Langgewenstbuurt 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 Hilversum
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hilversum.
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