neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Heseveld

6,130 residents · postal code 6543 · Part of Nijmegen-Nieuw-West, Nijmegen

Bottom 29% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

In Heseveld a good one and a half times as many offences are registered as is usual nationally, and yet there is a 5.2 for safety. That is not a flaw: violence — the component that counts heaviest in that pillar — actually occurs there less often than nationally, and burglary lies exactly on the median. It is above all theft that drives the total up, good for half of all registrations and at a good two times the usual level.

The 6.4 for families stands out the other way. The primary school is nearby, so that is not what it is down to; it sits in the population make-up, with almost six in ten single-person households and a share of children below the national picture. Heseveld is a neighbourhood where the daily amenities are right — shop, GP and station all close by, good for an 8.6 — but where proportionally few families live.

no. 9,399 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 24 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Heseveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heseveld comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Heseveld 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

39.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

19.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 337 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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The figures ⌄

Amenities

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

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

1.4 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.9 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.8 km

Motorway ramp

3.3 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

€ 355,000

Welfare recipients

53.8 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

48%

Social housing

38%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

54%

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

6,351 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

51%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,630

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

0.6 km

Households with children

21%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Heseveld has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2516%
NL median 11%
25–4534%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
57% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,351 — 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 Heseveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heseveld comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Heseveld 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 Heseveld?

In Heseveld the police recorded 337 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Heseveld calculated?

Heseveld scores 4.6 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 Heseveld 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.