neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Groenewoud

3,650 residents · postal code 6525 · Part of Nijmegen-Oost, Nijmegen

Bottom 22% in the Netherlands

Plenty of space, less prosperity

More than four in five households in Groenewoud live alone and fewer than one in ten has children. That explains the 4.6 for families better than the distances do — the primary school is nine hundred metres away, close enough. Where so few children live, that pillar stays low however short the walk to school.

The wealth measurement is unusually skewed. Property values sit only slightly below the national median and social assistance barely above it, but more than six in ten households are on a low income — far more than nationally — and vacancy runs three times as high. What the neighbourhood sets against that is greenery: almost three quarters of the area within three hundred metres is planted and the tree canopy reaches more than three times the national median, good for a 7.4 for quiet & nature.

no. 10,213 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 28 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Groenewoud a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Groenewoud comes out at 31 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

31.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

13.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 140 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

1.4 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

2.6 km

Motorway ramp

0.9 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

€ 388,000

Welfare recipients

11.0 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

62%

Vacancy

12%

Owner-occupied

42%

Social housing

34%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

39%

Built after 2000

18%

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

3,128 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

72%

Trees nearby

32%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,326

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.4 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

0.9 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Groenewoud has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 43%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–155%
NL median 14%
15–2543%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6513%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
81% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,128 — 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 Groenewoud a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Groenewoud comes out at 31 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 Groenewoud?

In Groenewoud the police recorded 140 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 Groenewoud calculated?

Groenewoud scores 4.1 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 Groenewoud 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.