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Bottendaal

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

  • no. 8,102 of 13,064 neighbourhoods in the Netherlands
  • no. 15 of 40 in Nijmegen

Scores per pillar

Bottendaal is above all a neighbourhood of solo dwellers: 76 percent of households are single-person and barely six percent of residents are under fifteen. Amenities are all but unmatched at 9.9, yet greenery is missing (nature 2.6) in this dense corner of Nijmegen East. Two-thirds of homes are rented, and with just over 32 crimes per thousand people present, safety stays below average.

Amenities nearby

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Large supermarket
0.4 km
General practitioner
0.4 km
Primary school
0.5 km
Secondary school
0.9 km
Childcare
0.4 km
Train station
1.0 km
Hospital
2.1 km
Restaurant
0.2 km
Café
0.2 km
Library
1.4 km

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year (residents plus business activity, see method). Small neighbourhoods are statistically smoothed.

Total crimes
32.9
Violent crimes
0.8
Burglaries
1.5

per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses)

Housing

Average property value
€ 404,000
Owner-occupied
35%
Single-family homes
23%
Built after 2000
13%
Income per resident
€ 34,000

Who lives here

0–15 6%15–25 27%25–45 38%45–65 18%65+ 11%
Average household size
1.4
Households with children
9%
Single-person households
76%
Residents per km²
12,666

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Frequently asked questions

How is the grade for Bottendaal calculated?

Bottendaal scores 5.3 overall. That is a weighted average of five pillars: safety, amenities, housing, social & income, and nature & quiet. Each pillar compares this neighbourhood with every other neighbourhood in the Netherlands, using open data from CBS and the police.

Is Bottendaal a safe neighbourhood?

Bottendaal scores 4.9 on safety, based on registered crimes per 1,000 people present (32.9 per year). The national median is around 24.1.