neighbourhood in Nieuwegein

Zandveld

2,365 residents · postal code 3434 · Part of Zandveld, Nieuwegein

Top 27% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

With a 9.5 for families, Zandveld belongs to the top thousand neighbourhoods in the country, and here the score holds on both sides: the primary school is four hundred metres away and children live in almost every second household, with a fifth of residents under fifteen. That is a combination you rarely see together.

The station is the outlier the other way: almost ten kilometres. Because rail counts for less than a sixth of the amenities pillar, that still stands at 6.9, carried by supermarket, GP and restaurant within a kilometre.

Wealth & income comes out at 4.7, and that does not come from the incomes, which sit close to the national picture. It lies in a property value below the median and a social assistance rate more than three times the national middle.

no. 3,436 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 8 of 34 in Nieuwegein

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Is Zandveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Zandveld comes out at 22 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.

Total crime

21.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

9.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 64 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

9.8 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

3.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 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

€ 373,000

Welfare recipients

25.4 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

39%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

76%

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

7,667 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,886

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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

44%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

2.3 km

Residents under 15

20%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Zandveld has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1520%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,667 — 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 Zandveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Zandveld comes out at 22 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 Zandveld?

In Zandveld the police recorded 64 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Zandveld calculated?

Zandveld scores 8.0 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 Zandveld 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.