neighbourhood in Albrandswaard
De Eilanden
3,310 residents · postal code 3162 · Part of Portland, Albrandswaard
Safe, but everything is a drive away
De Eilanden is one of the most densely built neighbourhoods in the country and still reaches 5.9 for quiet & nature. That is less contradictory than it looks: the pillar counts five things, and two of them work in its favour here. The noise level is below the national middle and the share of water is a multiple of the median. Density pulls the score down; the water and the quiet hold it up.
On safety the neighbourhood comes out at 9.7, with all four types of offence below the national median and burglary at a fraction of it.
The families score lags at 6.3, and the primary school more than a kilometre away is its heaviest component. In the wealth & income pillar most things point up — high property value, broad top layer, little vacancy — with the social assistance rate as the exception, sitting well above the national middle.
- no. 2,035 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 23 in Albrandswaard
How De Eilanden scores
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Is De Eilanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Eilanden comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Eilanden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 30 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
De Eilanden has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,963 — 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 De Eilanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Eilanden comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Eilanden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Eilanden?
In De Eilanden the police recorded 30 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 De Eilanden calculated?
De Eilanden scores 8.8 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 De Eilanden 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Albrandswaard.
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