neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Hatert

10,160 residents · postal code 6535 · Part of Nijmegen-Zuid, Nijmegen

Bottom 19% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Four of the five components of the quiet pillar point the same way in Hatert: more greenery in the surroundings than nationally, an ampler tree canopy, more water and a noise level that stays below the national median value. Only the density works against it. That is how an urban neighbourhood with more than six thousand residents per square kilometre comes to a 7.6 for quiet.

The flip side is with wealth, a 3.1. Households with a low income form the majority here, the top of the income distribution is thinly represented, the social assistance density is many times higher than average and the property value lags far behind. Families comes out at a 5.5 while the primary school is seven hundred metres away: that figure is depressed here by the small share of households with children, not by the distance.

no. 10,656 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 30 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Hatert a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hatert comes out at 35 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

34.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

15.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 426 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

0.7 km

Train station

3.3 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.8 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 296,000

Welfare recipients

72.8 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

55%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

30%

Social housing

61%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

52%

Built after 2000

17%

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

6,716 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

58%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,120

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

0.7 km

Households with children

20%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hatert has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–2518%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+21%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,716 — 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 Hatert a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hatert comes out at 35 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 Hatert?

In Hatert the police recorded 426 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (35 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 Hatert calculated?

Hatert scores 3.9 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 Hatert 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.