neighbourhood in Veenendaal

Petenbos Oost

2,600 residents · postal code 3903 · Part of Zuidoost, Veenendaal

Top 10% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

Petenbos Oost has a 9.7 for safety and a 5.6 for quiet & nature, and here the two do not move together. Every recorded offence type sits below the national median, but the noise level is clearly above it — crime and noise nuisance are two separate things in this model, and this neighbourhood shows how far apart they can lie.

The 5.8 for amenities has one clear cause: the GP is a good two kilometres away while the supermarket is around the corner. As for the 7.9 for wealth & income, all its components point the same way — property value above the median, little social assistance, hardly any vacancy — without any one of them being exceptional. It is the sum that makes the figure.

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no. 10 of 36 in Veenendaal

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Is Petenbos Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Petenbos Oost comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Petenbos Oost 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

14.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

6.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 43 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

0.8 km

GP practice

2.2 km

Train station

2.6 km

Restaurant

1.6 km

Hospital

2.2 km

Café

2.6 km

Library

3.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 469,000

Welfare recipients

3.8 per 1,000

High incomes

24%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

76%

Social housing

12%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

72%

Built after 2000

10%

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

5,871 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

54%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,113

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

1.0 km

Households with children

45%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

1.8 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Petenbos Oost has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 15%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6531%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,871 — 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 Petenbos Oost a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Petenbos Oost?

In Petenbos Oost the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Petenbos Oost calculated?

Petenbos Oost scores 9.3 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 Petenbos Oost 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.