neighbourhood in Utrecht

Vleuterweide-West

6,000 residents · postal code 3452 · Part of Vleuten-De Meern, Utrecht

Top 11% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Vleuterweide-West is a neighbourhood where almost everything is right except the daily shopping. Supermarket and GP are both one and a half kilometres away, further than is usual in the Netherlands, and because it is precisely those two that count heaviest, amenities hangs at a 5.6 — even though the station is close by.

For families this is among the strongest places in the country: six in ten households have children, the primary school is seven hundred metres away and together that yields a 9.6. The wealth pillar comes out at the same level, carried by a property value well above the Dutch middle.

Quiet & nature is the counterpart. With a good seven thousand residents per square kilometre, little tree canopy and a noise level above the median, that pillar gets no further than a 3.8.

no. 1,389 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 13 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Vleuterweide-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vleuterweide-West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vleuterweide-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

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

Total crime

14.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

4.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 111 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

1.5 km

GP practice

1.5 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

1.3 km

Hospital

5.8 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 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

€ 631,000

Welfare recipients

10.0 per 1,000

High incomes

36%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

69%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

87%

Built after 2000

100%

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

7,615 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

49%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,524

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.7 km

Households with children

62%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

23%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vleuterweide-West has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 6%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1523%
NL median 14%
15–2516%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6532%
NL median 28%
65+6%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
62% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,615 — 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-West a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Vleuterweide-West?

In Vleuterweide-West the police recorded 111 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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-West calculated?

Vleuterweide-West 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 Vleuterweide-West 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.