neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Altrade

6,470 residents · postal code 6521 · Part of Nijmegen-Oost, Nijmegen

Bottom 50% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Altrade has a property value above the national middle, and the wealth pillar nevertheless sticks at a 5.3. What pulls it down is social assistance, two and a half times the national figure, and a bottom income group that is clearly wider than in the country.

The 5.9 for families has nothing to do with distance — the primary school is nearby. It sits in who lives there: more than two thirds of the households consist of one person and not even a tenth of the residents is a child.

The registered crime figure is a good one and a half times above the national one and consists for the largest part of theft, which occurs here almost three times as often as nationally. Violence actually stays below it, and that makes a difference in the safety score of 5.0. Anyone who sees burglary or street violence as the greatest risk here is looking at the wrong item.

no. 6,597 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 12 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Altrade a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Altrade comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Altrade 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.

Total crime

41.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

24.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 395 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.8 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.9 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 444,000

Welfare recipients

20.1 per 1,000

High incomes

20%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

48%

Social housing

26%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

31%

Built after 2000

10%

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

10,560 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

42%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,871

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.8 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

0.6 km

Households with children

13%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Altrade has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 23%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–2523%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
68% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,560 — 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 Altrade a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Altrade comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Altrade 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 Altrade?

In Altrade the police recorded 395 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Altrade calculated?

Altrade scores 6.2 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 Altrade 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.