neighbourhood in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Amerongen-Dorp
5,165 residents · postal code 3958 · Part of Amerongen, Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Amerongen-Dorp has property values above the national median and still sticks at a 5.7 for wealth. That comes from the other side of that pillar: social assistance use here is around double the Dutch figure, the share of households with a low income sits exactly at the national level and slightly more stands empty than usual. The bricks carry the pillar, the incomes do not.
More striking is the 8.9 for quiet with more than four thousand residents per square kilometre. Greenery and tree canopy within three hundred metres both lie far above the average, and those two make up for what the number of residents costs.
The number of registered offences is less than half the national figure, which makes the 9.0 for safety self-evident. Only burglary lies slightly above it.
- no. 924 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 32 in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
How Amerongen-Dorp scores
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Is Amerongen-Dorp a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Amerongen-Dorp comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Amerongen-Dorp is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 70 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
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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
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Who lives here
Amerongen-Dorp has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,040 — 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 Amerongen-Dorp a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Amerongen-Dorp comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Amerongen-Dorp is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Amerongen-Dorp?
In Amerongen-Dorp the police recorded 70 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Amerongen-Dorp calculated?
Amerongen-Dorp scores 9.5 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 Amerongen-Dorp 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Utrechtse Heuvelrug.
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