neighbourhood in Alphen aan den Rijn
Lijsterlaan
2,525 residents · postal code 2406 · Part of Lage Zijde, Alphen aan den Rijn
Everything close by, little space
In Lijsterlaan the primary school is seven hundred metres away, and still the families pillar gets no further than 5.4. This is one of those cases where distance does not explain the score: just over one in five households here has children, fewer than is usual nationally, and the share of young people is small.
Amenities are strong, at 8.9. Restaurant, doctor and supermarket are all three within walking distance and the station less than three kilometres away.
The quiet & nature pillar pays for that. With more than ten thousand residents per square kilometre, little greenery around and traffic noise above the national median, it stops at 3.5; only the tree canopy is exactly at the national midpoint. Wealth & income comes to 4.9, mainly because property values are below the median and the social assistance rate is twice as high.
- no. 7,525 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 75 of 93 in Alphen aan den Rijn
How Lijsterlaan scores
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Is Lijsterlaan a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lijsterlaan comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 77 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
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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
Lijsterlaan has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,156 — 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 Lijsterlaan a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lijsterlaan comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Lijsterlaan?
In Lijsterlaan the police recorded 77 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Lijsterlaan calculated?
Lijsterlaan scores 5.7 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 Lijsterlaan 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Alphen aan den Rijn
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Alphen aan den Rijn.
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