neighbourhood in Houten

Grassen

2,015 residents · postal code 3994 · Part of Houten Zuid-Oost, Houten

Top 24% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

Grassen shows how far new-build can sit from the shops. The supermarket is a good three kilometres away, the nearest restaurant just as far and the GP two and a half — hence a 4.4 for amenities. The station is the exception: one and a half kilometres, which serves commuters here better than shoppers.

Wealth & income stands well, with one qualification. Property value and incomes all point the same way: expensive houses, many high and few low incomes, little social assistance. Only vacancy lies above the national median, which counts more in that pillar than the share of owner-occupied homes.

The low quiet & nature score has a cause you can see outdoors. The tree canopy covers about a third of what is measured in the median Dutch neighbourhood, and with every home built after 2000 that is no accident: trees need time. Safety, by contrast, is at 9.8 one of the strongest figures in the country, with all four offence types below the median.

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no. 25 of 48 in Houten

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Is Grassen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Grassen comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grassen 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

11.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

3.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 19 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

3.4 km

GP practice

2.6 km

Train station

1.5 km

Restaurant

3.3 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

2.4 km

Library

4.3 km

Motorway ramp

3.7 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

€ 571,000

Welfare recipients

5.0 per 1,000

High incomes

36%

Low incomes

27%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

76%

Social housing

17%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

78%

Built after 2000

100%

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

5,181 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,644

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.9 km

Households with children

53%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

3.4 km

Residents under 15

23%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Grassen has strikingly many children under 15: 23%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1523%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
53% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,181 — 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 Grassen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Grassen comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grassen 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 Grassen?

In Grassen the police recorded 19 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 Grassen calculated?

Grassen scores 8.2 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 Grassen 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.