neighbourhood in Utrecht
De Meern-Zuid
6,545 residents · postal code 3454 · Part of Vleuten-De Meern, Utrecht
Good for children, with a safety question
De Meern-Zuid is thinly populated and greener than the country, and still gets no further than a 6.2 for quiet & nature. What holds that figure back is the noise: it is several decibels above the national middle, in a pillar where noise counts just as heavily as density, greenery, trees and water.
The crime figure is one and a half times above the national one. Of the counted types, burglary and theft come out above it — burglary even two and a half times the median — while violence and vandalism actually stay below. For the 5.8 of the safety pillar that means: this is about burglary and theft, not about violence.
The 9.4 for families is moreover genuinely carried by children and not only by the short school distance: more than four in ten households have them.
- no. 1,625 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 107 in Utrecht
How De Meern-Zuid scores
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Is De Meern-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Meern-Zuid comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Meern-Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 327 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
De Meern-Zuid has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,702 — 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 De Meern-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Meern-Zuid comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Meern-Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 De Meern-Zuid?
In De Meern-Zuid the police recorded 327 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 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 De Meern-Zuid calculated?
De Meern-Zuid scores 9.1 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 De Meern-Zuid 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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