neighbourhood in Nijmegen

't Acker

5,400 residents · postal code 6546 · Part of Lindenholt, Nijmegen

Bottom 50% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

't Acker is a neighbourhood of owner-occupied homes — more than six in ten addresses are owned by the resident, and the vast majority are single-family homes — and yet wealth gets stuck at 3.7 here. That pillar looks mainly at value and income: the property value is well below the national median and the share of social assistance recipients is a multiple of the Dutch level. Ownership itself hardly counts towards it, and that is exactly why a neighbourhood full of owner-occupied homes can come out low.

On every other front this is a middling neighbourhood without outliers. The number of registered offences is virtually at the national level, with only vandalism clearly above it and burglary strikingly far below it.

What pushes down the quiet score is noise. The level is almost five decibels above the Dutch middle, while greenery and trees around the neighbourhood are in fact slightly above average.

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no. 11 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is 't Acker a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, 't Acker comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

24.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

8.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 165 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

0.8 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

5.4 km

Café

3.9 km

Library

2.7 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 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

€ 303,000

Welfare recipients

40.7 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

62%

Social housing

34%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

84%

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

3,950 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

56%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,349

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

38%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

't Acker has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,950 — 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 't Acker a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, 't Acker comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in 't Acker?

In 't Acker the police recorded 165 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 't Acker calculated?

't Acker scores 6.2 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 't Acker 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.