neighbourhood in Alphen aan den Rijn
Paddestoelenbuurt
2,255 residents · postal code 2403 · Part of Zegersloot, Alphen aan den Rijn
Safe streets, thinner wallets
All four categories of offence in Paddestoelenbuurt lie below the national median, and for burglary it is a fraction of it. With more than two thousand residents that is not noise but a pattern, and it produces a 9.5 for safety.
The 9.3 for families comes from the same direction: the primary school four hundred metres away and just under forty per cent of households with children. Together those two pillars carry the overall score of 9.5.
On wealth & income the picture is more mixed than that figure suggests. Property values sit below the national middle and that weighs heavily, but social assistance does not exceed half the median and the share of low incomes falls below it. A 6.1 is the result of those two opposing signals, not of a neighbourhood that stands middling. The station, almost five kilometres off, is the only amenity here at real distance.
- no. 876 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 93 in Alphen aan den Rijn
How Paddestoelenbuurt scores
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Is Paddestoelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Paddestoelenbuurt comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Paddestoelenbuurt 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, 36 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
The age profile of Paddestoelenbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,225 — 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 Paddestoelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Paddestoelenbuurt comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Paddestoelenbuurt 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 Paddestoelenbuurt?
In Paddestoelenbuurt the police recorded 36 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Paddestoelenbuurt calculated?
Paddestoelenbuurt scores 9.5 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 Paddestoelenbuurt 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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