neighbourhood in Veenendaal
Schepenbuurt
3,605 residents · postal code 3904 · Part of West, Veenendaal
Safe, but not spacious
Schepenbuurt scores 9.7, putting it among the five hundred highest in the country. The safety figures carry that: violence, theft and vandalism sit far below the national median, and only burglary is marginally above.
The real distinction is in the wealth & income pillar. A 7.3 is high, and unlike in many neighbourhoods every component here points the same way: property value above the median, little vacancy and above all a social assistance rate far below the Dutch middle. The share of lower incomes is the only thing slightly above the median.
What the figures do not show is a city. The supermarket and the GP are both more than a kilometre away, and that is where the 6.4 for amenities comes from — the lowest score here, in an otherwise very strong profile.
- no. 512 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 36 in Veenendaal
How Schepenbuurt scores
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Is Schepenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schepenbuurt comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schepenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 32 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
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
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
Who lives here
Schepenbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,284 — 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 Schepenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schepenbuurt comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schepenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Schepenbuurt?
In Schepenbuurt the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (9 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 Schepenbuurt calculated?
Schepenbuurt scores 9.7 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 Schepenbuurt 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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