neighbourhood in Utrecht

Grauwaart

1,815 residents · postal code 3541 · Part of Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht

Top 17% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Almost a third of the residents of Grauwaart are under fifteen and only a fraction are 65 or over. Few Dutch neighbourhoods are skewed that young, and combined with a primary school six hundred metres away that produces a 9.7 for families.

The 5.0 for safety fits less comfortably, and it comes down to one category: violence here runs at more than twice the national middle. Burglary hardly occurs and property crime stays below the median, so it is not that more of everything happens — it is the heaviest-weighted type that stands out.

For quiet & nature, a 2.9, little works in its favour: tree canopy is a fraction of the national figure, the green share stays under thirty per cent and traffic noise is above the median. The entire housing stock was built after 2000.

no. 2,133 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 20 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Grauwaart a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

42.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

9.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 109 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

1.7 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 615,000

Welfare recipients

16.5 per 1,000

High incomes

37%

Low incomes

30%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

45%

Social housing

40%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

62%

Built after 2000

100%

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

6,951 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

28%

Trees nearby

Water share

10%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,101

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.7 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

0.6 km

Households with children

60%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

32%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Grauwaart has strikingly many children under 15: 32%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1532%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+3%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
60% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,951 — 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 Grauwaart a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Grauwaart comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Grauwaart 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 Grauwaart?

In Grauwaart the police recorded 109 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Grauwaart calculated?

Grauwaart scores 8.8 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 Grauwaart 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.