neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Galgenveld

7,090 residents · postal code 6524 · Part of Nijmegen-Oost, Nijmegen

Top 32% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Seven in ten households in Galgenveld consist of one person and barely one in eight has children. Yet the families pillar stands at a 7.0. That score for the most part measures distances, with a primary school at four hundred metres, and not how many families actually live there. Anyone looking for a neighbourhood with many children is reading the wrong figure here.

The offence picture is just as one-sided. The total rises above the national median, but that is almost entirely theft; violence stays below it and so does vandalism. Only burglary still rises above. For a neighbourhood with a 5.5 for safety that means: risk to your property, far less to yourself.

The property value meanwhile lies well above the Dutch level while the bottom income group is broader than average, two figures that point against each other.

no. 4,063 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 8 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Galgenveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Galgenveld comes out at 28 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

28.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.6 per 1,000

Property crime

16.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 293 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.2 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 562,000

Welfare recipients

12.7 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

56%

Social housing

19%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

46%

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

7,170 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,820

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

12%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–2527%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6517%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
70% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,170 — 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 Galgenveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Galgenveld comes out at 28 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 Galgenveld?

In Galgenveld the police recorded 293 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Galgenveld calculated?

Galgenveld scores 7.7 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 Galgenveld 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.