district in Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Driebergen
Driebergen has 10 neighbourhoods with 19,145 residents in total.
Driebergen owes its character to the Utrechtse Heuvelrug it sits on, ten neighbourhoods and just over 19,000 residents around the centre and the surrounding avenues. The overall stands out at 7.9, with amenities (7.7), safety (7.9) and wealth and income (7.2) all well above the middle. Only quiet and nature lags, at 7.8: the village sits in the green, but hard against motorway and railway. A well-to-do, wooded commuter town between Utrecht and the ridge.
no. 1 of the 5 districts of Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Short answer: Driebergen scores 9.2 as a district of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, no. 1 of the 5 districts of Utrechtse Heuvelrug. Its strongest neighbourhood is Driebergen-Oost en Zuid (9.8), the worst Driebergerbroek-Sterkenburg (5.5). The district has 10 neighbourhoods with 19,145 residents in total.
Key figures for Driebergen
- residents
- 19,145
- neighbourhoods
- 10
- km² of land
- 26.4
How Driebergen 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, 474 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
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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
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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
The age profile of Driebergen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,146 — 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 Driebergen, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Driebergen
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Driebergen.
Neighbourhoods in Driebergen
Sorted by total grade