neighbourhood in Zaltbommel

Gameren

2,275 residents · postal code 5311 · Part of Kerkwijk, Zaltbommel

Top 11% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Gameren reaches an overall score of 9.2 without excelling anywhere except on safety. Violence is at a fraction of the national middle, property crime and vandalism stay well below it, and only burglary rises slightly above. With just over two thousand residents the counts are small, but the picture is consistent.

The 5.9 for wealth & income is the odd one out. Property value and the share of high incomes are both just above the national median, social assistance and vacancy clearly below it — only the share of low incomes is somewhat larger than nationally. This is not a neighbourhood falling behind; the figure mainly says there is no upward outlier anywhere.

What the neighbourhood does have is silence. The sound level is far below the national middle and few people live here per square kilometre, which brings the quiet & nature pillar to 7.8 despite a tree canopy below the median.

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no. 5 of 25 in Zaltbommel

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Is Gameren a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gameren comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Gameren 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.

Total crime

10.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

4.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 24 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

1.1 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

4.9 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

3.7 km

Café

1.1 km

Library

2.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 426,000

Welfare recipients

4.4 per 1,000

High incomes

20%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

70%

Social housing

26%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

84%

Built after 2000

32%

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

1,343 inw/km²

Noise level

45 dB

Green surroundings

54%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

293

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

0.7 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

2.6 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Gameren has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+23%
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
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,343 — far less 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 Gameren a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gameren comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Gameren 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 Gameren?

In Gameren the police recorded 24 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 Gameren calculated?

Gameren scores 9.2 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 Gameren 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.