neighbourhood in Veldhoven

Zonderwijk

3,495 residents · postal code 5505 · Part of Veldhoven, Veldhoven

Bottom 47% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Zonderwijk comes out around the national middle on almost every pillar, with one exception pointing downwards. The social assistance rate is more than three and a half times the median, the lowest income group is clearly broader than nationally and the highest thinner. Only vacancy works out favourably, and the property value stays just below the middle. Together that is the 4.7 for wealth & income.

The safety pillar stops at 6.1 while the total number of reports is below the national median. That is because violence and burglary are both slightly above it, and those two weigh heaviest in that figure. Property offences and vandalism stay below the middle.

Accessibility is the strong side: supermarket, GP and school are all within eight hundred metres. Only the railway station is nearly eight kilometres away.

no. 6,935 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 12 of 17 in Veldhoven

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Is Zonderwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Zonderwijk comes out at 22 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.

Total crime

21.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

7.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 90 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

7.7 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

1.2 km

Library

2.5 km

Motorway ramp

2.7 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

€ 401,000

Welfare recipients

28.6 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

51%

Social housing

45%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

79%

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

3,930 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

47%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,028

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.8 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

0.8 km

Households with children

36%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,930 — 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 Zonderwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Zonderwijk comes out at 22 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 Zonderwijk?

In Zonderwijk the police recorded 90 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Zonderwijk calculated?

Zonderwijk scores 6.0 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 Zonderwijk 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.