neighbourhood in Utrecht
Utrecht Science Park
3,365 residents · postal code 3584 · Part of Oost, Utrecht
Everything close by, little to spend
Almost nobody with children lives in Utrecht Science Park: the age group under fifteen is virtually absent and 95 percent of households are single-person. The 3.0 for families follows from that and from distance — the nearest primary school is more than two kilometres away, further than in almost any other urban neighbourhood.
The wealth & income pillar, a 2.9, measures something other than poverty here. Three quarters of households fall in the lowest income group and property value is low, while three quarters of the buildings date from after 2000. What the place does deliver is space and greenery, good for a 7.9 on quiet & nature despite noise well above the national median. Among the crime figures property crime is the only real outlier; burglary hardly occurs.
- no. 12,024 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 104 of 107 in Utrecht
How Utrecht Science Park scores
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Is Utrecht Science Park a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Utrecht Science Park comes out at 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Utrecht Science Park 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, 214 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
Utrecht Science Park has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 62%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–150%
NL median 14%
- 15–2562%
NL median 11%
- 25–4537%
NL median 22%
- 45–650%
NL median 28%
- 65+0%
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
1.1 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
95% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
0% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
926 — far less 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 Utrecht Science Park a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Utrecht Science Park comes out at 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Utrecht Science Park 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 Utrecht Science Park?
In Utrecht Science Park the police recorded 214 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (48 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 Utrecht Science Park calculated?
Utrecht Science Park scores 3.1 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 Utrecht Science Park 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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