neighbourhood in Utrecht
Geuzenwijk
3,925 residents · postal code 3554 · Part of Noordwest, Utrecht
Everything for children close by, and little room
A 9.0 for families in a place where fewer than three in ten households have children: in Geuzenwijk that figure runs on distance. The primary school is three hundred metres away, and school proximity makes up the largest part of that pillar.
The 4.5 for wealth & income is less clear-cut than it looks. The share of high incomes is exactly on the national median and property values just below it; what drags the figure down is the social assistance rate, several times the national one, together with a large share of low incomes.
On safety, violence is less common here than nationally, while burglary, theft and vandalism are all three above it. Living here means watching what is parked outside and the front door, rather than the evening walk.
- no. 6,531 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 50 of 107 in Utrecht
How Geuzenwijk scores
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Is Geuzenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Geuzenwijk comes out at 26 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.
In 2025, 134 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
Geuzenwijk has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4540%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,268 — 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 Geuzenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Geuzenwijk comes out at 26 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 Geuzenwijk?
In Geuzenwijk the police recorded 134 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Geuzenwijk calculated?
Geuzenwijk scores 6.3 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 Geuzenwijk 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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