neighbourhood in Leusden
Tabaksteeg
2,530 residents · postal code 3832 · Part of Leusden-Zuid, Leusden
Safe, but not spacious
An overall score of 10.0 is reached by a few dozen neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and Tabaksteeg is one of them. Safety, wealth & income and families all three stand above nine, and none of the three rests on a single component: burglary is almost unknown, high incomes are nearly twice as numerous as nationally, and more than half of households have children with the primary school four hundred metres away.
The exception is quiet & nature, at 5.5. It is densely built, the tree canopy is thin and there is less greenery than is usual nationally; only noise levels are below the median.
That the total still ends up at the top is because each of the five pillars counts for a fifth. One weak score does not outweigh four strong ones here.
- no. 54 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 28 in Leusden
How Tabaksteeg scores
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Is Tabaksteeg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Tabaksteeg comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Tabaksteeg 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, 39 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
Tabaksteeg has strikingly many children under 15: 22%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
52% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,232 — 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 Tabaksteeg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Tabaksteeg comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Tabaksteeg 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 Tabaksteeg?
In Tabaksteeg the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Tabaksteeg calculated?
Tabaksteeg scores 10.0 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 Tabaksteeg 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Leusden
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Leusden.
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