neighbourhood in Wageningen
Bovenbuurt
2,970 residents · postal code 6706 · Part of Boven- en Benedenbuurt, Wageningen
Everything close by, little to spend
Two in three households in Bovenbuurt consist of one person, and the share of households with children is small. That puts the 7.3 for families in perspective: it comes from the primary school three hundred metres away, not from who lives here.
The wealth score of 4.3 is less bleak than it looks. The bottom income group is considerably larger than nationally, but the rate of social assistance is below the national level and so is vacancy. Low incomes here do not mean dependence on benefits.
Among the offences, violence stays far below the national median, and that carries the 7.5 for safety; only vandalism and burglary are slightly above. What is missing is the railway: the nearest station is more than six kilometres away.
- no. 5,158 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 33 in Wageningen
How Bovenbuurt scores
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Is Bovenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bovenbuurt comes out at 18 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, 62 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
Bovenbuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 24%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2524%
NL median 11%
- 25–4537%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
67% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,560 — 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 Bovenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bovenbuurt comes out at 18 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 Bovenbuurt?
In Bovenbuurt the police recorded 62 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Bovenbuurt calculated?
Bovenbuurt scores 7.0 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 Bovenbuurt 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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