neighbourhood in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Driebergen-Zuidwest
5,335 residents · postal code 3972 · Part of Driebergen, Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Driebergen-Zuidwest is in the top five per cent of the country with a 9.6, and but for one point that is visible everywhere: plenty of greenery, plenty of tree canopy, little noise and few registered offences. The exception is wealth with a 5.3, and that does not come from the houses — the property value is above the Dutch middle. It lies on the income side: social assistance occurs more than three times as often here as nationally, and more households with a low income live there than elsewhere.
Practically this is a village neighbourhood where daily life lies within half a kilometre: the school, the supermarket and the GP are all three close by. The railway station is not — for that you have to go almost three kilometres further, which for anyone relying on the train means a daily detour.
- no. 648 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 32 in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
How Driebergen-Zuidwest scores
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Is Driebergen-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Driebergen-Zuidwest comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Driebergen-Zuidwest 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, 113 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
Driebergen-Zuidwest has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,274 — 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 Driebergen-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Driebergen-Zuidwest comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Driebergen-Zuidwest 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 Driebergen-Zuidwest?
In Driebergen-Zuidwest the police recorded 113 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 Driebergen-Zuidwest calculated?
Driebergen-Zuidwest scores 9.6 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 Driebergen-Zuidwest 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Utrechtse Heuvelrug.
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