neighbourhood in Utrecht
Neckardreef en omgeving
4,605 residents · postal code 3562 · Part of Overvecht, Utrecht
Everything close by, little to spend
Of the households around the Neckardreef, one in twenty is in the top income group against almost one in five nationally, and the social assistance rate is more than eleven times the median. Every component of the wealth pillar points the same way; there is nothing to qualify here.
The safety pillar is pressed down by two types at once. Violence is at more than twice the national median and theft at almost double it. That combination produces a 2.9, and the distinction between the street and the bike rack does not help here.
Yet there is an 8.5 for families and a 5.6 for quiet & nature. The first comes from short distances — school, supermarket and GP are all five hundred metres away or less — the second from plenty of greenery and tree canopy within three hundred metres. Crime does not count in that quiet pillar.
- no. 9,985 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 85 of 107 in Utrecht
How Neckardreef en omgeving scores
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Is Neckardreef en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Neckardreef en omgeving comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Neckardreef en omgeving is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 257 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
Neckardreef en omgeving has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,608 — 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 Neckardreef en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Neckardreef en omgeving comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Neckardreef en omgeving 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 Neckardreef en omgeving?
In Neckardreef en omgeving the police recorded 257 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (44 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 Neckardreef en omgeving calculated?
Neckardreef en omgeving scores 4.3 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 Neckardreef en omgeving 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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