neighbourhood in Utrecht

Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum

7,555 residents · postal code 3452 · Part of Vleuten-De Meern, Utrecht

Top 50% in the Netherlands

Well-off, but not spacious

More than half the households in Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum have children and a quarter of the residents are under fifteen - and yet the families figure sticks at a 7.5. That comes from the distance: the primary school is more than a kilometre away, and that is the heaviest item in that pillar. What childcare and secondary education cost counts in there too, but does not appear in the table below.

The second surprise is with the offences. This Utrecht neighbourhood was built almost entirely after 2000 and gets a 9.0 for wealth, carried by a property value far above the national one. Theft is nevertheless registered twice as often as in the average neighbourhood, and vandalism too occurs more often; that is where the 4.1 for safety comes from.

no. 6,529 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 49 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

36.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

20.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 373 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

0.8 km

Train station

1.4 km

Restaurant

1.2 km

Hospital

5.3 km

Café

1.5 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

3.1 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

€ 598,000

Welfare recipients

10.6 per 1,000

High incomes

38%

Low incomes

30%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

64%

Social housing

21%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

71%

Built after 2000

93%

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

7,816 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,827

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.1 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

1.4 km

Households with children

54%

Childcare

1.1 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

25%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum has strikingly many children under 15: 25%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1525%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+10%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
54% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,816 — 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 Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum?

In Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum the police recorded 373 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 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 Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum calculated?

Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum scores 6.3 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 Vleuterweide-Noord/Oost/Centrum 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.