neighbourhood in Utrecht
Transwijk-Noord
5,095 residents · postal code 3527 · Part of Zuidwest, Utrecht
Good for children, with a safety question
The income distribution in Transwijk-Noord is almost a copy of the Dutch one: just as many households at the top, slightly fewer at the bottom. Still, wealth gets no further than a 4.7, and that is not down to property values alone. Social assistance use here is a multiple of the national figure, and that cannot be read off those income groups.
The 2.9 for safety is harder. Theft is more than three times as common as in the average neighbourhood and burglary more common still, while vandalism runs at double and violence above it. All four types point the same way.
The families figure of 7.7 is misleading if you go looking for children behind it. Not even a fifth of households have them, and it is the primary school four hundred metres away that does the work.
- no. 11,167 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 96 of 107 in Utrecht
How Transwijk-Noord scores
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Is Transwijk-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Transwijk-Noord comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Transwijk-Noord 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, 355 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
Transwijk-Noord has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 46%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4546%
NL median 22%
- 45–6515%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,188 — 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 Transwijk-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Transwijk-Noord comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Transwijk-Noord 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 Transwijk-Noord?
In Transwijk-Noord the police recorded 355 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (50 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 Transwijk-Noord calculated?
Transwijk-Noord scores 3.6 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 Transwijk-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.
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