neighbourhood in Utrecht
Buiten Wittevrouwen
4,735 residents · postal code 3581 · Part of Oost, Utrecht
Everything close by, little space
Buiten Wittevrouwen shows how misleading a single crime figure can be. The total is above the national median, but that comes almost entirely from theft; violence is at less than half the national median, burglary exactly on it and vandalism below. That is the profile of a busy city district where bikes and parcels disappear, not of one where you take care after dark.
The 7.4 for wealth & income turns on the property value, which is far above the national median and drives nearly forty per cent of that pillar. The income distribution itself is less clear-cut: the top group is wider than nationally, but the bottom one sits exactly on the median and so points nowhere.
Seven in ten households here consist of one person. The 6.8 for families therefore comes from the short school distance, not from the population.
- no. 2,546 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 23 of 107 in Utrecht
How Buiten Wittevrouwen scores
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Is Buiten Wittevrouwen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buiten Wittevrouwen 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.
In 2025, 292 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Buiten Wittevrouwen has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 24%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–2524%
NL median 11%
- 25–4539%
NL median 22%
- 45–6517%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
71% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,133 — 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 Buiten Wittevrouwen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buiten Wittevrouwen 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 Buiten Wittevrouwen?
In Buiten Wittevrouwen the police recorded 292 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 Buiten Wittevrouwen calculated?
Buiten Wittevrouwen scores 8.5 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 Buiten Wittevrouwen 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.
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