neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Bottendaal

4,945 residents · postal code 6512 · Part of Nijmegen-Oost, Nijmegen

Bottom 33% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Almost nobody in Bottendaal lives with children: fewer than a tenth of households have any, and the share of young children is a fraction of what is usual nationally. Yet the families pillar comes out at a 6.4. That score mainly looks at distances — primary school, childcare, secondary education — and in a dense city neighbourhood those are short. So parents find everything close by here, but few peers for their child.

With 12,666 residents per square kilometre, a noise level well above the national figure and a greenery measurement far below it, the 2.6 for quiet & nature is among the lowest in the country.

Among the offences the skewed distribution stands out: theft is recorded twice as often as nationally, violence half as often. The 4.9 for safety is the average of two extremes.

no. 8,883 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 20 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Bottendaal a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bottendaal comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

32.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.5 per 1,000

Property crime

18.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 239 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

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.1 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.9 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

€ 404,000

Welfare recipients

32.4 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

47%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

35%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

23%

Built after 2000

13%

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

12,666 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

34%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,371

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.5 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Bottendaal has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 27%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–2527%
NL median 11%
25–4538%
NL median 22%
45–6518%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
76% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,666 — 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 Bottendaal a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bottendaal comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Bottendaal?

In Bottendaal the police recorded 239 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (33 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 Bottendaal calculated?

Bottendaal scores 4.9 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 Bottendaal 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.