district in Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten
Nuenen
Nuenen has 6 neighbourhoods with 21,155 residents in total.
Nuenen is best known as the village of Van Gogh, six neighbourhoods and just over 21,000 residents around Nuenen-Zuid and -Oost. Wealth and income score 7.3 and safety 7.9, marks that suit a prosperous residential town right beside Eindhoven. The overall reaches 7.7. Amenities lag a little at 6.5 and quiet and nature at 7.2, the price of a village layout this close to the city.
no. 3 of the 3 districts of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten
Short answer: Nuenen scores 8.6 as a district of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten, no. 3 of the 3 districts of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten. Its strongest neighbourhood is Nuenen-Oost (9.4), the worst Verspreide huizen ten zuidoosten van Nuenen (5.6). The district has 6 neighbourhoods with 21,155 residents in total.
Key figures for Nuenen
- residents
- 21,155
- neighbourhoods
- 6
- km² of land
- 18.1
How Nuenen 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, 607 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
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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
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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
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Who lives here
Nuenen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,871 — 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 Nuenen, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Nuenen
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Nuenen.
Neighbourhoods in Nuenen
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