neighbourhood in Zeist
Austerlitz
1,835 residents · postal code 3711 · Part of Zeist-Oost, Zeist
Well-off, and well out of town
More than half the surface within three hundred metres of Austerlitz is under tree canopy — six times the national middle, an outlier rarely seen in the Netherlands. Combined with nine in ten square metres of greenery and traffic noise below the median, that produces a 9.0 for quiet & nature. This is woodland, not pasture.
The bill comes at the GP, four kilometres away. The supermarket, by contrast, is four hundred metres off; it is healthcare and the station that are missing here, and together they push the amenities pillar down to 5.5.
The wealth & income pillar, a 9.2, is consistent across every component: high property value, favourable income spread, little social assistance and low vacancy. And all four crime figures sit below the national middle, with property crime at a little over half of it.
- no. 634 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 33 in Zeist
How Austerlitz scores
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Is Austerlitz a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Austerlitz comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Austerlitz 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, 24 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
Austerlitz has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 8%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,489 — around the 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 Austerlitz a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Austerlitz comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Austerlitz 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 Austerlitz?
In Austerlitz the police recorded 24 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Austerlitz calculated?
Austerlitz scores 9.6 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 Austerlitz 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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