neighbourhood in Veenendaal

Dragonder Noord

4,730 residents · postal code 3902 · Part of Noordoost, Veenendaal

Top 18% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Almost three in ten residents of Dragonder Noord are 65 or older, and yet there is a 9.0 for families. That is not an error in the figure but a property of it: the pillar mainly measures how far the school and childcare are, and only then who lives there. The primary school here is five hundred metres away, and the distance to school and childcare weighs more heavily than the age structure.

On crime, two types point up and two point down. Violence and theft are clearly below the national median, burglary and vandalism above it. For a place of this size that means: little to fear on the street, but reason to lock the shed.

The second-lowest score is the 5.7 for wealth & income, and it sits mainly in the property value, which stays below the national median. Social assistance here is well below the national median and vacancy is minimal.

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Is Dragonder Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Dragonder Noord comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

18.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

5.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 104 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.4 km

Café

1.1 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 386,000

Welfare recipients

4.2 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

66%

Social housing

24%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

74%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

6,385 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

42%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,141

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.1 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

37%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.5 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Dragonder Noord has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,385 — 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 Dragonder Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Dragonder Noord 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 Dragonder Noord?

In Dragonder Noord the police recorded 104 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 Dragonder Noord calculated?

Dragonder Noord scores 8.7 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 Dragonder Noord 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.