neighbourhood in Utrecht
Lauwerecht
3,260 residents · postal code 3515 · Part of Noordoost, Utrecht
Everything close by, safety lags
Lauwerecht has a population without children and without older people. Only seven per cent are under fifteen and an equally small share are 65 or older; two thirds of addresses are single-person households. The primary school is six hundred metres away and still the families pillar stalls at 6.0 — here that comes from the share of households with children, not from the distance.
This is one of the most densely built neighbourhoods in the country and greenery in the surrounding area covers about a third against well over half nationally. That puts the quiet & nature pillar at 3.5.
The safety score of 3.2 rests on violence and theft, both well over twice above the national median. Vandalism is below it — the only type pointing the other way, and the lightest of the four.
- no. 8,764 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 71 of 107 in Utrecht
How Lauwerecht scores
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Is Lauwerecht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lauwerecht comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 195 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
Lauwerecht has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 52%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4552%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
67% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,997 — 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 Lauwerecht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lauwerecht comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Lauwerecht?
In Lauwerecht the police recorded 195 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 Lauwerecht calculated?
Lauwerecht 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 Lauwerecht 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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