neighbourhood in Zeist
Nijenheim
2,685 residents · postal code 3704 · Part of Zeist-West, Zeist
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Nijenheim has a social assistance rate more than five times the national middle and, at the same time, an 8.7 for safety. That combination is less self-evident than it sounds and deserves explaining: burglaries here are all but absent, property offences run far below the Dutch median and criminal damage is below it too. Only violence is slightly above the national middle. The crime picture and the income picture stand apart from each other in this part of Zeist-West.
The families pillar comes out at 9.0, with the primary school six hundred metres away and a share of children above the national level. On quiet & nature the neighbourhood sits around the middle: there is more than twice as much tree canopy above the streets as is usual nationally, but with almost ten thousand residents per square kilometre this is densely built ground.
- no. 3,562 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 18 of 33 in Zeist
How Nijenheim scores
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Is Nijenheim a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nijenheim comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nijenheim 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, 42 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
Nijenheim has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,590 — 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 Nijenheim a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nijenheim comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nijenheim 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 Nijenheim?
In Nijenheim the police recorded 42 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 Nijenheim calculated?
Nijenheim scores 8.0 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 Nijenheim 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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