neighbourhood in Woudenberg
Het Groene Woud
1,855 residents · postal code 3931 · Part of Woudenberg, Woudenberg
Well-off, but not spacious
Three in ten residents of Het Groene Woud are under fifteen and nearly six in ten households have children; only a small share of residents are 65 or over. That is a markedly young population, and with a primary school five hundred metres away it produces an 8.8 for families.
The wealth & income pillar reaches a 9.6 and every component works in its favour: high property value, more high and fewer low incomes than nationally, no social assistance, hardly any vacancy.
Its name notwithstanding, the quiet & nature pillar gets no further than 4.7. Traffic noise runs more than three decibels below the national median, so it is quiet enough; what is missing is greenery. The green share within three hundred metres lands exactly on the national middle, tree canopy stays below it and there is no water, on compactly built ground. The railway station is six kilometres away.
- no. 1,148 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 12 in Woudenberg
How Het Groene Woud scores
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Is Het Groene Woud a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Groene Woud comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Groene Woud 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, 29 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
Het Groene Woud has strikingly many children under 15: 30%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1530%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
57% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,336 — 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 Het Groene Woud a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Groene Woud comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Groene Woud 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 Het Groene Woud?
In Het Groene Woud the police recorded 29 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Het Groene Woud calculated?
Het Groene Woud scores 9.3 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 Het Groene Woud 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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