neighbourhood in Utrecht

Parkwijk-Noord

3,350 residents · postal code 3544 · Part of Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht

Top 16% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Parkwijk-Noord was built entirely after 2000, more than half of its households have children at home and the primary school is six hundred metres away. That is the 9.6 for families, among the thousand highest in the country.

Wealth & income is high but not without exception. Property value is far above the national median, almost a third of households belong to the best-earning group and there is hardly any vacancy — but social assistance here is more than two and a half times as common as nationally. What the area also lacks is quiet: at 2.9 it ranks among the lowest in the country, because of density and above all a tree canopy at just over half the national share. New build and trees do not go together here.

no. 2,034 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 19 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Parkwijk-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Parkwijk-Noord comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

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

Total crime

22.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

10.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 98 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

2.4 km

Café

0.9 km

Library

1.7 km

Motorway ramp

2.7 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

€ 583,000

Welfare recipients

20.9 per 1,000

High incomes

32%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

80%

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

8,104 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

41%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,749

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

0.6 km

Households with children

54%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

20%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Parkwijk-Noord has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 9%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1520%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6531%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
54% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,104 — 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 Parkwijk-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Parkwijk-Noord comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Parkwijk-Noord?

In Parkwijk-Noord the police recorded 98 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Parkwijk-Noord calculated?

Parkwijk-Noord 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 Parkwijk-Noord 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.