neighbourhood in Utrecht
Wittevrouwen
6,615 residents · postal code 3572 · Part of Noordoost, Utrecht
Everything close by, little space
Wittevrouwen has more tree canopy above the street than the average Dutch neighbourhood, and still scores a 3.5 for quiet & nature. That comes not from the greenery and not from the noise, which is only a fraction above the median, but from how densely people live here: almost eighteen thousand residents per square kilometre.
The crime figure lands exactly on the national middle, and it is precisely that outcome which hides what sits beneath it. Theft is well above it, violence and vandalism clearly below. The register fills up here with property offences, not with violence — and because violence is the heaviest component of that pillar, the safety score stays on a 6.7.
The 7.8 for families says little about children: not even one in five households has them. That figure comes from the distances, and the primary school is four hundred metres away.
- no. 1,871 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 107 in Utrecht
How Wittevrouwen scores
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Is Wittevrouwen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wittevrouwen comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 248 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
Wittevrouwen has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 19%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2519%
NL median 11%
- 25–4537%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
17,859 — 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 Wittevrouwen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wittevrouwen comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Wittevrouwen?
In Wittevrouwen the police recorded 248 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Wittevrouwen calculated?
Wittevrouwen scores 8.9 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 Wittevrouwen 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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