neighbourhood in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Overberg
1,435 residents · postal code 3959 · Part of Amerongen, Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Room to spare, amenities further off
Overberg is a village neighbourhood in open country: a hundred and fifty residents per square kilometre, almost ninety per cent greenery in the surrounding area and noise below the national median. That produces 9.5 for quiet & nature, and at the same time 3.7 for amenities, because supermarket and GP are more than three kilometres away.
The families pillar sits in between at 5.0, and that middle position is explainable: the primary school is a little over a kilometre off, nearer than the shops but not around the corner, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar. The money is there: property values are half again above the national middle, social assistance stays below the median and vacancy is low. Only the share of low incomes is above the national level, so wealth across the board it is not.
- no. 4,054 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 32 in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
How Overberg scores
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Is Overberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Overberg comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 38 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
Overberg has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
159 — 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 Overberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Overberg comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Overberg?
In Overberg the police recorded 38 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Overberg calculated?
Overberg scores 7.7 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 Overberg 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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