neighbourhood in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Leersum - Ginkel
255 residents · postal code 3956 · Part of Leersum, Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Room to spare, amenities further off
Leersum - Ginkel has a few hundred residents, and that makes some figures shakier than they look: the crime rate is above the national median, but at these numbers it comes down to a handful of reported offences. The figures that do give a grip point two ways. Quiet & nature stands at 9.5, with almost ninety per cent greenery in the surrounding area and plenty of tree canopy; amenities stay stuck at 2.9, with supermarket and GP more than four kilometres away.
Wealth & income is high but not flawless. Property values are far above the national middle and social assistance does not occur, while nearly a quarter of addresses stand empty — a multiple of what is usual nationally. That last point is what keeps 7.8 from being a higher number here.
- no. 5,955 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 32 in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
How Leersum - Ginkel scores
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Is Leersum - Ginkel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leersum - Ginkel comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 10 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
Leersum - Ginkel has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
3.2 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
58 — far less 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 Leersum - Ginkel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leersum - Ginkel comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.9. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 27 records per 1,000, 1.6 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Leersum - Ginkel?
In Leersum - Ginkel the police recorded 10 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Leersum - Ginkel calculated?
Leersum - Ginkel scores 6.6 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 Leersum - Ginkel 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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