neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Ressen

4,095 residents · postal code 6515 · Part of Nijmegen-Noord, Nijmegen

Top 23% in the Netherlands

Well-off, but not spacious

Almost a third of Ressen's residents are under fifteen and only two per cent are 65 or older. You rarely come across that kind of age profile in the Netherlands, and six in ten households here have children.

Even so, the families pillar reaches no higher than an 8.2, and the reason is concrete: the primary school is a good kilometre away, and that is the heaviest component within the pillar. The same holds for amenities, at a 5.5 — the doctor is over two kilometres off and the supermarket one and a half.

Wealth & income comes out at an 8.7 with a property value more than a hundred thousand euros above the national median, though social assistance here does run above the Dutch middle.

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no. 4 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Ressen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ressen comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

30.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

16.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 168 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

1.6 km

GP practice

2.1 km

Train station

3.2 km

Restaurant

1.4 km

Hospital

1.0 km

Café

3.0 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 546,000

Welfare recipients

14.7 per 1,000

High incomes

35%

Low incomes

22%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

58%

Social housing

20%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

97%

Built after 2000

97%

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

1,361 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

55%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

917

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

1.3 km

Households with children

61%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

2.3 km

Residents under 15

32%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Ressen has strikingly many children under 15: 32%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1532%
NL median 14%
15–257%
NL median 11%
25–4543%
NL median 22%
45–6515%
NL median 28%
65+2%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
61% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,361 — far less 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 Ressen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ressen comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.0. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 30 records per 1,000, 0.9 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Ressen?

In Ressen the police recorded 168 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Ressen calculated?

Ressen scores 8.3 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 Ressen 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.