Sport in Amersfoort

How many residents of Amersfoort play sport every week and get enough exercise: by age group, among schoolchildren and how that has changed since 2016. You can see Amersfoort alongside the rest of the Netherlands and alongside similar municipalities, and which sports fields and facilities there are.

Sport every week

Amersfoort 65%
GGD Regio Utrecht 63%
Netherlands 58%

Gets enough exercise

Amersfoort 51%
GGD Regio Utrecht 52%
Netherlands 49%

By age

Sport every week

18–64, Amersfoort 69%
18–64, Netherlands 63%
65+, Amersfoort 48%
65+, Netherlands 42%

Gets enough exercise

18–64, Amersfoort 53%
18–64, Netherlands 52%
65+, Amersfoort 44%
65+, Netherlands 41%

Pupils

Amersfoort 79%
Netherlands 76%

Since 2016

Alongside other municipalities

Comparable municipalities

Amersfoort 65%
's-Hertogenbosch 63%
Apeldoorn 60%
Haarlemmermeer 60%
Enschede 60%
Zaanstad 55%

Pitches and courts

	Amersfoort	Per 10.000 residents	Netherlands
Football pitches	99	6,1	7,3
Tennis courts	61	3,7	5,1
Padel courts	14	0,9	0,6
Hockey pitches	14	0,9	0,6
Basketball courts	14	0,9	1,2
Buitenfitness	4	0,2	0,6
Skate parks	4	0,2	0,4

Sources: CBS/RIVM/GGD's, Health Monitor for Adults and Older People 2024, adults; in 2016 from 19 years old. The line on a bar is the margin of error (95%); pupils: Youth Health Monitor 2023, grades 2 and 4, weekly sport at a club or gym; comparable = equally urban and roughly equal in size, CBS, Key Figures for Neighbourhoods and Districts; pitches and courts: © OpenStreetMap contributors, as they appear on the map.

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