district in Nijmegen
Nijmegen-Zuid
Nijmegen-Zuid has 4 neighbourhoods with 23,840 residents in total.
Nijmegen-Zuid bundles Hatert, Grootstal and Brakkenstein, four neighbourhoods and nearly 24,000 residents on the city's southern side. Amenities score 8.7, with the centre a bike ride away. Even so, safety (4.3) and wealth (4.0) stay well below the median, and quiet and nature gets no further than 4.2. The overall sticks at 4.0. A mixed post-war district where the nearby university brings convenience but liveability still lags.
no. 4 of the 9 districts of Nijmegen
Short answer: Nijmegen-Zuid scores 5.4 as a district of Nijmegen, no. 4 of the 9 districts of Nijmegen. Its strongest neighbourhood is Brakkenstein (9.0), the worst Hatert (3.9). The district has 4 neighbourhoods with 23,840 residents in total.
Key figures for Nijmegen-Zuid
- residents
- 23,840
- neighbourhoods
- 4
- km² of land
- 4.6
How Nijmegen-Zuid scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 963 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
Nijmegen-Zuid has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,772 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Nijmegen-Zuid, weighted by population.
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