neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Goffert

3,210 residents · postal code 6532 · Part of Nijmegen-Midden, Nijmegen

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Spacious, but safety lags

Nearly ninety recorded offences per thousand residents is close to four times the national median, and in Goffert that comes mainly from property crime — five times the national middle. But it is not only theft: violence is more than double the median, and that weighs heaviest in the safety pillar.

Against that 2.6 stands an 8.0 for quiet and nature, which is no contradiction but a consequence of how the pillar is built: crime is not part of it. What is part of it is a low building density and a tree canopy more than double the national level.

The population lives markedly alone — two thirds of households are single-person — and the social assistance rate is more than eight times the national median. For a neighbourhood with property value far below the middle, that is the heaviest combination the wealth pillar knows.

no. 12,635 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 40 of 40 in Nijmegen

Compare with…View on the map

Do some of these matter more to you than others?

Is Goffert a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Goffert comes out at 88 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Goffert 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

88.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

46.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 452 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

The safest neighbourhoods in Nijmegen →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Nijmegen →

The figures ⌄

Amenities

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

Supermarket

1.4 km

GP practice

1.6 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

1.0 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

3.0 km

Tick = Dutch median

Best amenities in Nijmegen →

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.

Property value

€ 291,000

Welfare recipients

65.4 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

18%

Social housing

60%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

47%

Built after 2000

11%

Tick = Dutch median

The most affluent neighbourhoods in Nijmegen →

The figures ⌄

Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

977 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

55%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,726

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

The quietest, greenest neighbourhoods in Nijmegen →

The figures ⌄

Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.2 km

Households with children

15%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

The best neighbourhoods for families in Nijmegen →

Who lives here

Goffert has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 20%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–2520%
NL median 11%
25–4534%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
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
67% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
977 — far 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 Goffert a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Goffert comes out at 88 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Goffert 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 Goffert?

In Goffert the police recorded 452 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (88 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 Goffert calculated?

Goffert scores 2.8 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 Goffert 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.