neighbourhood in Veenendaal
Vogelbuurt
2,905 residents · postal code 3906 · Part of West, Veenendaal
Good for children, with a safety question
The number of reported offences in Vogelbuurt is above the national median, and yet this is not a place where you would rather stay in of an evening. The breakdown makes the difference: property crime runs at about double the national level, while violence stays below it and burglary sits exactly on it. Things go missing here; that is different from an unsafe street, and it explains a 5.1 with a total that looks higher than it is.
The rest of this Veenendaal neighbourhood is strikingly even in its strength. Greenery within three hundred metres is well above the national median and so is the tree canopy, which produces a 7.5 for quiet & nature — rare in a place with nearly five thousand residents per square kilometre.
The primary school is three hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children. Distance and population point the same way here, and together they yield a 9.6 for families.
- no. 1,517 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 36 in Veenendaal
How Vogelbuurt scores
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Is Vogelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelbuurt comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 126 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
The age profile of Vogelbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,592 — 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 Vogelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelbuurt comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Vogelbuurt?
In Vogelbuurt the police recorded 126 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Vogelbuurt calculated?
Vogelbuurt scores 9.1 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 Vogelbuurt 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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