neighbourhood in Lelystad
Horst
2,240 residents · postal code 8225 · Part of Boswijk, Lelystad
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Burglary occurs in Horst almost four times as often as in the average Dutch neighbourhood and vandalism twice as often, while violence and property crime both stay below. Because burglary counts heavily in the safety pillar, it stops at a 4.9 despite a total offence rate that barely differs from the median.
The families pillar does the opposite with a 9.2: the school six hundred metres away and children in two out of five households. And with a tree canopy at almost twice the national middle and water well above it, quiet & nature reaches a 7.5, remarkable at more than six thousand residents per square kilometre.
The 4.6 for wealth & income is the only real drawback, and it lies in the houses as well as the incomes: property values at three quarters of the median, the share of high incomes at two thirds of that and social assistance at more than twice the middle. The share of low incomes, by contrast, sits below the national figure.
- no. 4,189 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 32 of 87 in Lelystad
How Horst scores
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Is Horst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Horst comes out at 25 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, 68 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
Horst has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,224 — 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 Horst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Horst comes out at 25 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 Horst?
In Horst the police recorded 68 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Horst calculated?
Horst scores 7.6 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 Horst 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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