neighbourhood in Houten

Slagen

1,745 residents · postal code 3991 · Part of Houten Noord-West, Houten

Top 10% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

Slagen scores an 8.7 for families and a 4.8 for amenities, and those two figures are about different distances. The primary school is four hundred metres away — the component that shapes the families pillar most. The supermarket, the GP and above all the station, by contrast, are far off, and those are exactly the components amenities rests on. Children walk to school here; adults take the bike or the car.

The quiet & nature pillar reaches a 7.7, which is unusual for a neighbourhood built this densely. Traffic noise is below the national median, greenery and tree canopy above it, and there is more water than average — four of the five components work in its favour.

The wealth & income pillar stays at 7.5 because of the social assistance rate, which runs more than twice the national middle while the property value works out favourably.

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Is Slagen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Slagen comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Slagen 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.

Total crime

15.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

5.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 26 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

1.9 km

GP practice

2.0 km

Train station

3.8 km

Restaurant

1.3 km

Hospital

3.0 km

Café

3.3 km

Library

3.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 497,000

Welfare recipients

17.2 per 1,000

High incomes

24%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

62%

Social housing

33%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

83%

Built after 2000

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

6,098 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

61%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,314

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.4 km

Households with children

42%

Childcare

1.4 km

Secondary school

2.9 km

Residents under 15

20%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Slagen has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1520%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,098 — 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 Slagen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Slagen comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Slagen 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 Slagen?

In Slagen the police recorded 26 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Slagen calculated?

Slagen scores 9.3 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 Slagen 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.