neighbourhood in Lelystad

Karveel West

1,985 residents · postal code 8242 · Part of Kustwijk, Lelystad

Top 11% in the Netherlands

School close by, shops further off

Karveel West achieves a 9.2 without any single pillar carrying the score: safety, wealth and quiet & nature are all three above the middle and families comes out at 9.7. An even picture like that is rarer than a single outlier.

The wealth pillar is striking. Property values are below the national median, and yet the score comes out at 6.8: no social assistance is recorded in this neighbourhood, vacancy is close to zero and fewer households live on a low income than nationally. So a neighbourhood with affordable homes need not be a neighbourhood with money worries.

The families score rests on both sides: the primary school is four hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children. What you give up here is the station, which is almost three kilometres off.

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no. 13 of 87 in Lelystad

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Is Karveel West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Karveel West comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Karveel West 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

15.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

3.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.8 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

0.9 km

Train station

2.7 km

Restaurant

1.6 km

Hospital

3.4 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

2.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.9 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

€ 346,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

94%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

86%

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

5,872 inw/km²

Noise level

48 dB

Green surroundings

65%

Trees nearby

21%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,162

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.4 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

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Karveel West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,872 — 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 Karveel West a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Karveel West?

In Karveel West the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Karveel West calculated?

Karveel West scores 9.2 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 Karveel West 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.