neighbourhood in Houten

Hoeven

1,735 residents · postal code 3992 · Part of Houten Noord-West, Houten

Bottom 35% in the Netherlands

Safe, but few children

A 3.7 for families is remarkably low for a residential area in Houten, and Hoeven shows how that happens. The primary school is almost two kilometres away, and school distance is by far the heaviest component of that pillar. On top of that, a quarter of households have children and the share of young residents is below the national middle.

It is the profile of a neighbourhood at a later stage of life: more than a quarter of residents are 65 or over and nearly half of households consist of a single person.

The wealth & income pillar stalls at 6.1 because of one deviant component. Property value, incomes and vacancy look neutral to slightly favourable, but the social assistance rate runs almost three times above the national middle. On safety the picture is mixed: violence and vandalism sit above it, property crime and burglary below.

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no. 41 of 48 in Houten

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Is Hoeven a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoeven comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

17.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

4.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 32 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

1.0 km

GP practice

2.7 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

1.0 km

Hospital

3.7 km

Café

2.2 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 427,000

Welfare recipients

23.1 per 1,000

High incomes

21%

Low incomes

32%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

58%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

57%

Built after 2000

10%

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

5,976 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

55%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,159

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

1.8 km

Households with children

25%

Childcare

2.1 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hoeven has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+26%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,976 — 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 Hoeven a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoeven comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Hoeven?

In Hoeven the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Hoeven calculated?

Hoeven scores 5.1 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 Hoeven 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.