neighbourhood in Veenendaal

Engelenburg

4,075 residents · postal code 3901 · Part of Zuidoost, Veenendaal

Bottom 37% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Engelenburg reaches an 8.8 for families in a neighbourhood where a quarter of residents are 65 or older and only a quarter of households have children. The primary school three hundred metres away does that work: school distance is the heaviest component of the pillar, and the score here says little about who lives there.

Wealth & income comes out at a 2.7. Property values run at just over sixty per cent of the national median, more than half of households are on a low income and social assistance is at six times the Dutch middle.

Safety lands on a 4.7. Violence sits exactly on the median and property crime below it; it is burglary and vandalism that push the score down, and together they account for nearly four in ten points of the pillar.

no. 8,267 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 30 of 36 in Veenendaal

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Is Engelenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Engelenburg comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

26.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.4 per 1,000

Property crime

7.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 130 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

1.0 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

0.7 km

Café

0.9 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 268,000

Welfare recipients

51.5 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

54%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

24%

Social housing

57%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

18%

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

6,999 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

44%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,169

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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

0.3 km

Households with children

25%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Engelenburg looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+25%
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
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,999 — 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 Engelenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Engelenburg comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Engelenburg?

In Engelenburg the police recorded 130 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 Engelenburg calculated?

Engelenburg scores 5.3 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 Engelenburg 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.