neighbourhood in Leusden
Groenhouten
2,220 residents · postal code 3833 · Part of Leusden-Centrum West, Leusden
Safe, but not spacious
Almost three in ten residents of Groenhouten are 65 or older, and that shows in the families score. The primary school is around the corner, which makes the heaviest component of that pillar favourable, but the share of children is below the national picture and so the score stalls at a 6.8.
The 9.7 for safety holds on all four offence types: theft, vandalism, violence and burglary each lie below the national median, burglary at virtually zero.
The 5.8 for wealth & income cannot be read in one direction, which makes it more interesting than it looks. Property values are just under the national median, the top income group is slightly broader than nationally and the bottom one slightly narrower, but the social assistance rate is well above the middle. As for the station, this is simply a neighbourhood off the railway: nearly six kilometres, while everything for daily life is within half a kilometre.
- no. 1,285 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 28 in Leusden
How Groenhouten scores
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Is Groenhouten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Groenhouten comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Groenhouten 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.
In 2025, 29 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
Groenhouten has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,680 — 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 Groenhouten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Groenhouten comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Groenhouten 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 Groenhouten?
In Groenhouten the police recorded 29 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Groenhouten calculated?
Groenhouten 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 Groenhouten 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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