neighbourhood in West Betuwe
Meteren - Kalenberg
2,360 residents · postal code 4194 · Part of Meteren, West Betuwe
Safe, but not spacious
Almost six in ten homes in Meteren - Kalenberg were built after 2000, and it shows in the residents: nearly half of households have children and only twelve percent of residents are 65 or older.
The safety pillar stands at 9.3 resting on four legs. Violence and property crime sit well below the national middle, criminal damage at just over half of it; only burglary is a fraction above. That is a broadly carried score, not a favourable total hiding one type.
The exception is quiet & nature at 4.0. The share of green here is above the national level and the noise only slightly above it, so the explanation lies elsewhere: there is no water, the tree canopy does not even reach two-thirds of the national value, and at more than five thousand residents per square kilometre this is more densely built than the village character suggests.
- no. 2,348 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 64 in West Betuwe
How Meteren - Kalenberg scores
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Is Meteren - Kalenberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meteren - Kalenberg comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meteren - Kalenberg 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, 28 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
Meteren - Kalenberg has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 12%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
47% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,481 — 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 Meteren - Kalenberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meteren - Kalenberg comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meteren - Kalenberg 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 Meteren - Kalenberg?
In Meteren - Kalenberg the police recorded 28 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Meteren - Kalenberg calculated?
Meteren - Kalenberg scores 8.7 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 Meteren - Kalenberg 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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