neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Hunnerberg

4,415 residents · postal code 6522 · Part of Nijmegen-Oost, Nijmegen

Top 29% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Six per cent of Hunnerberg's residents are under fifteen and more than six in ten live alone. That the families pillar still comes out at a 6.5 is down to the primary school five hundred metres away — distance weighs far more in that pillar than the number of children.

Property values here sit well above the national median and the top income group is much better represented than nationally; that yields a 7.7 for wealth & income, while the share of low incomes is simply average.

The 4.4 for safety stands apart from all that. Property offences run at more than one and a half times the median and make up half of all recorded crime, while violence stays slightly below it. Here too it is about what disappears, not about what happens.

no. 3,708 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 7 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Hunnerberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hunnerberg 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

31.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

15.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 211 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.3 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

€ 616,000

Welfare recipients

9.1 per 1,000

High incomes

26%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

62%

Social housing

14%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

36%

Built after 2000

15%

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

4,094 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

62%

Trees nearby

19%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,688

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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

0.5 km

Households with children

11%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hunnerberg has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 22%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–2522%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6517%
NL median 28%
65+32%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,094 — 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 Hunnerberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hunnerberg 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 Hunnerberg?

In Hunnerberg the police recorded 211 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 Hunnerberg calculated?

Hunnerberg scores 7.9 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 Hunnerberg 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.