neighbourhood in Utrecht
Schildersbuurt
3,505 residents · postal code 3583 · Part of Oost, Utrecht
Everything close by, little space
Few places in the Netherlands are as densely built as the Schildersbuurt, and the consequences show in two opposing figures. Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all a few hundred metres away, which yields the 9.7 for amenities. At the same time little room is left over: greenery within three hundred metres is below the national middle, open water is absent and the noise level is nearly four decibels above the median.
The number of reported offences is only just above the national middle, and that total is misleadingly calm. Property offences are more than one and a half times the median and make up the bulk of what is registered here, while violence comes to under sixty per cent of the national level. Things go missing; the street is not grim.
Single-person households are in the majority here, and yet the families pillar stands at 9.0 — the primary school is three hundred metres away.
- no. 1,343 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 107 in Utrecht
How Schildersbuurt scores
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Is Schildersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 137 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
Schildersbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4533%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,266 — 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 Schildersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt comes out at 25 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 Schildersbuurt?
In Schildersbuurt the police recorded 137 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Schildersbuurt calculated?
Schildersbuurt scores 9.2 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 Schildersbuurt 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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