neighbourhood in Utrecht
Hoge Weide
3,920 residents · postal code 3541 · Part of Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
Everything for children close by, and little room
Rarely is an age profile as sharp as in Hoge Weide: almost seven in ten households have children and the share of residents aged 65 or over is negligible. That is where the 9.9 for families comes from, together with a primary school close by.
The price is right beside it: a 3.1 for quiet & nature. Greenery and trees nearby are both far below the national median and the building is dense. What was added here in homes and children was not added in green space.
Safety and wealth point the same way. Violence and burglary are well below the national median, theft exactly on it; property values are far above it, high incomes are well represented and low incomes rare. That makes the 3.1 for quiet & nature the only real counterweight in the whole set of figures.
- no. 540 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 107 in Utrecht
How Hoge Weide scores
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Is Hoge Weide a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoge Weide comes out at 19 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.
In 2025, 92 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
Hoge Weide has strikingly many children under 15: 38%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1538%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6513%
NL median 28%
- 65+1%
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
3.2 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
69% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,926 — 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 Hoge Weide a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoge Weide comes out at 19 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 Hoge Weide?
In Hoge Weide the police recorded 92 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Hoge Weide calculated?
Hoge Weide scores 9.7 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 Hoge Weide 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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