neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Hees

3,140 residents · postal code 6542 · Part of Nijmegen-Nieuw-West, Nijmegen

Bottom 27% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Of all reported offences in Hees more than half are property crime, and that figure runs at almost three times the national middle. Violence stays below it. Even so the safety pillar gets no further than a 3.8, because the total counts in its own right — an area can therefore score low without being unsafe.

The wealth & income column is divided, which makes the 4.9 harder to read than it looks. Property value is above the national median and so is the share of high incomes, but the share of low incomes is above it too, the rate of social assistance more than three times over and vacancy nearly three times. This is not a poor neighbourhood but one with large internal differences.

The 6.0 for families hangs on a primary school seven hundred metres away, in an area where only one resident in seven is under fifteen.

no. 9,579 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 26 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Hees a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hees comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hees 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

45.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.8 per 1,000

Property crime

24.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 199 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

0.9 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

0.9 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

3.0 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

€ 441,000

Welfare recipients

25.5 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

11%

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

56%

Built after 2000

14%

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

3,822 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,502

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

0.7 km

Households with children

23%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hees has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+23%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,822 — 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 Hees a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hees comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hees 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 Hees?

In Hees the police recorded 199 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (45 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 Hees calculated?

Hees scores 4.5 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 Hees 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.