neighbourhood in Zeist
Couwenhoven
2,465 residents · postal code 3703 · Part of Zeist-West, Zeist
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Couwenhoven is a neighbourhood without outliers: no pillar rises above a 7.4 or drops below a 5.0. That makes one figure beneath them all the more striking, because the social assistance rate is more than five times the national median while the property value sits exactly on that Dutch average.
The 5.0 for wealth & income is therefore not a middling picture but a sum of opposing figures: the property value holds it up, social assistance and the share of low incomes push it down. Against that stands the 6.2 for quiet & nature, with greenery in the surroundings well above the median and a tree canopy almost twice above it. The amenities figure is held back because supermarket, GP and primary school are all about a kilometre away: nothing far off, but nothing around the corner either.
- no. 7,133 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 33 in Zeist
How Couwenhoven scores
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Is Couwenhoven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Couwenhoven comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 58 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
Couwenhoven has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,192 — 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 Couwenhoven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Couwenhoven comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Couwenhoven?
In Couwenhoven the police recorded 58 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Couwenhoven calculated?
Couwenhoven scores 5.9 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 Couwenhoven 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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