neighbourhood in Veenendaal

Gezonken Hoek

2,485 residents · postal code 3904 · Part of Zuidoost, Veenendaal

Top 7% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

The property value in Gezonken Hoek lands exactly on the national median, and still wealth & income gets no further than 5.6: the share of households on a low income is above the national level and the share on a high income below it. Social assistance is claimed about as often as the Dutch average.

The 9.7 for safety stands out, with all four offence types well below the median and a total that comes in at half the national level. The 9.4 for families comes from a primary school three hundred metres away and a share of households with children above the middle. Quiet & nature lags at 4.0: the green space around it is below the median and more than six thousand people live per square kilometre.

no. 906 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 8 of 36 in Veenendaal

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Is Gezonken Hoek a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gezonken Hoek comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Gezonken Hoek is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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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

11.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

3.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 27 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

0.9 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

0.6 km

Café

1.5 km

Library

1.9 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

€ 422,000

Welfare recipients

8.0 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

66%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

76%

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

6,147 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,424

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

36%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+24%
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
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,147 — 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 Gezonken Hoek a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Gezonken Hoek?

In Gezonken Hoek the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Gezonken Hoek calculated?

Gezonken Hoek scores 9.5 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 Gezonken Hoek 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.