neighbourhood in Utrecht
Welgelegen, Den Hommel
1,880 residents · postal code 3533 · Part of West, Utrecht
Everything close by, safety lags
All four offence types in Welgelegen, Den Hommel sit above the national middle, and that is rare. Property crime stands out furthest — more than four times the median — but violence, burglary and vandalism all join in. With a 2.8 for safety, then, there is no category that softens the picture.
The families pillar stays at 4.6 while the primary school is eight hundred metres away. That distance is not the explanation is clear from the age profile: more than six in ten households consist of a single person and barely an eighth have children.
Within the wealth & income pillar the vacancy figure stands out. It runs at double the national middle, while incomes work out more favourably than average and social assistance stays below the median. It is the exception in a pillar that otherwise points the other way.
- no. 10,309 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 87 of 107 in Utrecht
How Welgelegen, Den Hommel scores
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Is Welgelegen, Den Hommel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Welgelegen, Den Hommel comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Welgelegen, Den Hommel 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, 181 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
Welgelegen, Den Hommel has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4541%
NL median 22%
- 45–6514%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,232 — 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 Welgelegen, Den Hommel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Welgelegen, Den Hommel comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Welgelegen, Den Hommel 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 Welgelegen, Den Hommel?
In Welgelegen, Den Hommel the police recorded 181 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (58 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 Welgelegen, Den Hommel calculated?
Welgelegen, Den Hommel scores 4.1 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 Welgelegen, Den Hommel 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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