neighbourhood in Zeist
Patijnpark
4,130 residents · postal code 3705 · Part of Zeist-Noord, Zeist
Everything for children close by, and little room
Patijnpark ranks among the fifty highest neighbourhoods in the country on the overall score, and that is not down to one pillar: safety, wealth & income and families all score above eight.
On wealth & income the picture is not entirely closed, though. Property values sit more than two hundred thousand euros above the national median and over a third of households are on a high income, but social assistance per thousand residents runs at nearly twice the Dutch middle. That is a skew the 8.8 does not show.
The quiet & nature score of 6.3 is the weakest of the five. Greenery and tree canopy are well above the national median here and noise below it; what holds the score back is a density of over six thousand residents per square kilometre.
- no. 47 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 33 in Zeist
How Patijnpark scores
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Is Patijnpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Patijnpark comes out at 18 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, 96 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
Patijnpark has strikingly many children under 15: 22%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
6,516 — 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 Patijnpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Patijnpark comes out at 18 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 Patijnpark?
In Patijnpark the police recorded 96 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Patijnpark calculated?
Patijnpark scores 10.0 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 Patijnpark 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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