neighbourhood in Utrecht

Vleuterweide-Zuid

5,000 residents · postal code 3452 · Part of Vleuten-De Meern, Utrecht

Top 3% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Vleuterweide-Zuid was built almost entirely after 2000, and almost seven in ten households there have children. That share is exceptional, and it produces a 9.7 for families in which the distance to school barely comes into it.

The flip side is in the amenities pillar, which sticks at a 6.4. Nothing is far away, but nothing is really close by either: supermarket, GP and restaurant are all around a kilometre away, and with children and shopping that is a different story from around the corner.

In the wealth score of 9.6 there is a detail you would not expect: the social assistance figure lies slightly above the national one. The score comes from property values, far above the median, and from a top income group that is twice as broad as usual. It certainly does not come from quiet — with little tree canopy and an urban density that pillar sticks at a 4.1.

no. 297 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 2 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Vleuterweide-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vleuterweide-Zuid comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vleuterweide-Zuid 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

16.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

5.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 104 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

1.0 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

2.3 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

5.7 km

Café

2.3 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 699,000

Welfare recipients

10.0 per 1,000

High incomes

39%

Low incomes

30%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

72%

Social housing

18%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

87%

Built after 2000

99%

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

6,154 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,630

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

0.8 km

Households with children

68%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

28%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vleuterweide-Zuid has strikingly many children under 15: 28%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1528%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+5%
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
3.1 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
16% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
68% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,154 — 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-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Vleuterweide-Zuid?

In Vleuterweide-Zuid the police recorded 104 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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-Zuid calculated?

Vleuterweide-Zuid scores 9.8 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 Vleuterweide-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.