neighbourhood in Nijkerk
Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt
2,025 residents · postal code 3862 · Part of Nijkerk-stad, Nijkerk
Everything close by, except school and childcare
More than four in ten residents of Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt are 65 or older, well over double the usual national figure. That counts towards the 4.4 for families, but the primary school more than a kilometre away weighs more heavily still in that pillar.
The crime picture is unusually one-sided. Violence is below the national median, while theft is more than twice above it and burglary almost four times. That is the profile of a place where things go missing, not of a neighbourhood where you would rather stay in of an evening, and it keeps the safety pillar at a 4.9. The 9.9 for amenities comes from short distances in every direction: supermarket, doctor and restaurant close by, and the station six hundred metres away.
- no. 4,424 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 32 in Nijkerk
How Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt scores
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Is Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 105 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
Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 44%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4514%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+44%
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
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,017 — less 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 Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt?
In Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt the police recorded 105 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt calculated?
Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt scores 7.5 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 Zilverschoon/Oranjebuurt 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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