neighbourhood in Soest

Klaarwater

3,210 residents · postal code 3762 · Part of Klaarwater, Soest

Top 41% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Klaarwater scores well on everything to do with access and weakly on everything to do with money. Supermarket and restaurant are four hundred metres away, the station two kilometres; property value is far below the national median and the social assistance rate more than double it.

The safety pillar is strikingly even. Violence, property crime and vandalism all lie below the national middle, and only burglary rises above — exactly one deviation in an otherwise quiet picture.

The quiet and nature pillar stalls at 4.5 while noise exposure is barely above the median. What depresses the score is density: this is a densely built area, and density counts just as heavily in the pillar as noise. Single-person households make up almost half the total here and more than a quarter of residents are 65 or over.

no. 5,272 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 18 of 26 in Soest

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Is Klaarwater a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Klaarwater comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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

20.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

6.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 79 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

0.4 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

2.0 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

5.2 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 332,000

Welfare recipients

18.7 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

52%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

43%

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

8,705 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,487

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.8 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

28%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

2.6 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Klaarwater looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+27%
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
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,705 — 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 Klaarwater a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Klaarwater comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Klaarwater?

In Klaarwater the police recorded 79 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Klaarwater calculated?

Klaarwater scores 7.0 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 Klaarwater 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.