neighbourhood in Wageningen
De Weiden
1,785 residents · postal code 6708 · Part of De Weiden en Boomgaarden, Wageningen
Safe, but not spacious
De Weiden records less than half the national number of registered offences and still gets no further than a 7.2 for safety. That is down to burglary: here it is more than three times the Dutch median, and after violence, burglary is the heaviest component of that pillar. Violence itself sits exactly at the national level.
The 6.1 for families has a simple cause: the primary school is more than a kilometre away, and that pushes the pillar down. Wealth & income hovers at 5.6 with a mixed picture — a property value below the national median and more social assistance than is usual, but an income distribution that barely deviates and little vacancy. What De Weiden lacks most is a rail connection: the nearest station is more than seven kilometres away.
- no. 5,824 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 33 in Wageningen
How De Weiden scores
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Is De Weiden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Weiden comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Weiden 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, 16 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 De Weiden looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,128 — 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 De Weiden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Weiden comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Weiden 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 De Weiden?
In De Weiden the police recorded 16 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 De Weiden calculated?
De Weiden scores 6.7 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 De Weiden 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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