neighbourhood in Nijmegen

Tolhuis

3,625 residents · postal code 6537 · Part of Dukenburg, Nijmegen

Bottom 11% in the Netherlands

Plenty of space, less prosperity

Tolhuis produces a result you would not expect from a post-war urban neighbourhood: a 6.6 for quiet & nature, with more than four thousand residents per square kilometre. That comes from the greenery and the tree canopy in the immediate surroundings, both above the national median. Traffic noise, by contrast, sits above the median too, so it is not quiet everywhere.

The weakness lies elsewhere, and it is broad. Wealth & income scores 3.4, and every component points the same way: property value stays far below the median, higher incomes are thin on the ground, lower incomes are not, and the share on social assistance is a multiple of the national middle. On safety the issue is not burglary, which is below the median, but violence and vandalism, both above it. Almost half of all households are single-person.

no. 11,672 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 33 of 40 in Nijmegen

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Is Tolhuis a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Tolhuis comes out at 33 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

32.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

13.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 152 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

1.5 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

1.2 km

Hospital

3.6 km

Café

2.7 km

Library

1.5 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

€ 295,000

Welfare recipients

60.7 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

46%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

48%

Social housing

45%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

69%

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

4,447 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

57%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,941

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

0.8 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

3.2 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Tolhuis has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,447 — 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 Tolhuis a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Tolhuis comes out at 33 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 Tolhuis?

In Tolhuis the police recorded 152 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (33 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 Tolhuis calculated?

Tolhuis scores 3.3 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 Tolhuis 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.