neighbourhood in Valkenburg aan de Geul
Vroenhof
455 residents · postal code 6301 · Part of : Houthem - Sint Gerlach, Valkenburg aan de Geul
Safe, but few children
Vroenhof has the railway station nine hundred metres away and the supermarket more than two kilometres off — a ratio that is rarely this lopsided. That explains part of the amenities score, which holds at 5.7 despite that short distance to the railway.
With just over four hundred residents across a large area this is above all a quiet spot: the share of greenery within walking distance is far above the national median, the tree canopy more than twice as high, and all four recorded offence types are below the national middle. That produces two scores of 8.9, for quiet & nature and for safety.
The 2.8 for families is the flip side. The primary school is more than two kilometres away and four in ten residents are 65 or older; children are few. Vacancy, moreover, is three times above the national middle.
- no. 7,324 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 22 in Valkenburg aan de Geul
How Vroenhof scores
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Is Vroenhof a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vroenhof 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, 7 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
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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
Vroenhof has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+40%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
482 — 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 Vroenhof a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vroenhof 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 Vroenhof?
In Vroenhof the police recorded 7 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 Vroenhof calculated?
Vroenhof scores 5.8 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 Vroenhof 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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