neighbourhood in Leusden
Kern Achterveld
1,995 residents · postal code 3791 · Part of Achterveld, Leusden
Safe, but few children
Kern Achterveld sits in greenery: more than three quarters of the surface within three hundred metres is green and traffic noise stays well below the national median. Even so the quiet & nature pillar gets no higher than 6.9, because tree canopy is thinner than average and there is no water. Green here means pasture, not woodland.
The primary school is four hundred metres away and still the families pillar stops at 6.4. That is not down to distance but to the age profile: nearly three in ten residents are 65 or over and the share of children is clearly below the national middle.
The wealth & income pillar is a mixed story, which is why it lands at 6.4 while the property value sits above the median. The share of high incomes falls exactly on the national middle, as does vacancy, and the social assistance rate sits slightly above it.
- no. 2,159 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 28 in Leusden
How Kern Achterveld scores
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Is Kern Achterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Achterveld comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Achterveld 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, 34 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
Kern Achterveld has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,831 — 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 Kern Achterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Achterveld comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Achterveld 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 Kern Achterveld?
In Kern Achterveld the police recorded 34 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 Kern Achterveld calculated?
Kern Achterveld scores 8.8 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 Kern Achterveld 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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