neighbourhood in Utrecht
Pijlsweerd-Zuid
4,700 residents · postal code 3513 · Part of Noordwest, Utrecht
Everything close by, little space
The 2.7 for quiet & nature is the lowest figure in Pijlsweerd-Zuid and the easiest to explain: the noise level is more than eight decibels above the national median, there is barely a quarter as much greenery within three hundred metres as is usual nationally, and the building density approaches fifteen thousand residents per square kilometre. Every component of that pillar points the same way.
On crime, violence is the exception: it is below the national median, while theft is more than twice above it and burglary at almost four times. Whoever lives here watches their bike and their front door, not the street after dark.
The wealth pillar is largely favourable — high property value, wide top income group, narrow bottom one — but social assistance is well above the national median and vacancy slightly above.
- no. 7,475 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 55 of 107 in Utrecht
How Pijlsweerd-Zuid scores
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Is Pijlsweerd-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Pijlsweerd-Zuid comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Pijlsweerd-Zuid 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, 313 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
Pijlsweerd-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 56%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4556%
NL median 22%
- 45–6515%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,326 — 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 Pijlsweerd-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Pijlsweerd-Zuid comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Pijlsweerd-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 Pijlsweerd-Zuid?
In Pijlsweerd-Zuid the police recorded 313 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Pijlsweerd-Zuid calculated?
Pijlsweerd-Zuid scores 5.7 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 Pijlsweerd-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.
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