neighbourhood in Utrecht

Transwijk-Zuid

2,905 residents · postal code 3526 · Part of Zuidwest, Utrecht

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

In Transwijk-Zuid two wealth figures point in exactly opposite directions. The share of lower incomes is clearly below the national level and that of higher incomes exactly on it — on paper a favourable distribution. At the same time the social assistance rate is about six times the national one and vacancy double. The 3.7 falls precisely in between, and any blanket statement about this neighbourhood's wealth will not hold.

The crime picture is more uniform. Property offences run at more than four times the national median and account for almost the whole total; only domestic burglary stays below it.

The primary school is eight hundred metres away and yet the families score gets no further than a 4.0 — that lies in the population, with seven per cent under fifteen. Supermarket and GP are both over a kilometre off, in a neighbourhood built largely after 2000.

no. 12,586 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 107 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Transwijk-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

64.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

40.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 322 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

1.4 km

GP practice

1.6 km

Train station

2.5 km

Restaurant

1.0 km

Hospital

3.6 km

Café

1.7 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 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

€ 306,000

Welfare recipients

48.2 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

13%

Social housing

66%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

14%

Built after 2000

83%

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

3,983 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

37%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,740

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.6 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

0.8 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Transwijk-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 57%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4557%
NL median 22%
45–6511%
NL median 28%
65+16%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
72% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,983 — 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-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Transwijk-Zuid comes out at 64 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Transwijk-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 Transwijk-Zuid?

In Transwijk-Zuid the police recorded 322 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (64 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-Zuid calculated?

Transwijk-Zuid scores 2.8 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 Transwijk-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.