neighbourhood in Utrecht

Kanaleneiland-Zuid

8,980 residents · postal code 3526 · Part of Zuidwest, Utrecht

Bottom 34% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Kanaleneiland-Zuid's social assistance figure lies at about ten times the Dutch middle. That is the largest deviation in all of this neighbourhood's figures, and together with a property value far below the median and more than half of the households in the lowest income group it yields a 3.3 for wealth. At the top end, strikingly few households live here.

On safety, all four counted types come out above the national middle, violence one and a half times. There too stands a 3.3.

And then there is a 9.2 for families. That comes in the first place not from the children but from the distance: the primary school is three hundred metres away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar.

no. 8,645 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 70 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Kanaleneiland-Zuid 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

36.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

14.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 450 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

3.0 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

4.1 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 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

€ 336,000

Welfare recipients

79.1 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

51%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

29%

Social housing

54%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

11%

Built after 2000

13%

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

12,871 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

38%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,068

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.5 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

0.3 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kanaleneiland-Zuid has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2518%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,871 — 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 Kanaleneiland-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kanaleneiland-Zuid comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kanaleneiland-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 Kanaleneiland-Zuid?

In Kanaleneiland-Zuid the police recorded 450 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Kanaleneiland-Zuid calculated?

Kanaleneiland-Zuid scores 5.0 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 Kanaleneiland-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.