neighbourhood in Veenendaal
't Hoorntje
3,160 residents · postal code 3905 · Part of Noordwest, Veenendaal
Everything close by, little space
't Hoorntje scores a 9.0 for amenities without everything being equally close: restaurant, supermarket and station are all a short distance off, but the GP is more than a kilometre away. In this pillar the GP weighs the most after the supermarket, and that is exactly the difference between this figure and one of the highest in the country.
The 4.3 for wealth & income has one dominant cause and one less visible. Property value stays below the national middle, and the rate of social assistance is almost three times the median while vacancy is in fact low. The income distribution leans downward as well.
Quiet & nature drops to a 3.8 through the combination of density, little greenery within three hundred metres and noise above the median — the familiar pattern of an area sitting close to its amenities. The crime total, by contrast, stays well below the national level.
- no. 5,569 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 36 in Veenendaal
How 't Hoorntje scores
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Is 't Hoorntje a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, 't Hoorntje comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 77 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
't Hoorntje has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,348 — 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 't Hoorntje a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, 't Hoorntje comes out at 20 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 't Hoorntje?
In 't Hoorntje the police recorded 77 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 't Hoorntje calculated?
't Hoorntje scores 6.8 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 't Hoorntje 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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