neighbourhood in Alphen aan den Rijn
Planetenbuurt-Zuid
1,860 residents · postal code 2402 · Part of Ridderveld, Alphen aan den Rijn
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Planetenbuurt-Zuid is the unusual combination of a low wealth score and a high safety score: a 3.0 against an 8.8. The first figure holds across the board — property value is well below the median, almost half of all households fall into the lowest income group, the highest group is exceptionally thin and social assistance runs at a multiple of the national rate. The second does too: the recorded offence types are all below the national median, vandalism strikingly so.
This is densely built — more than twelve thousand residents per square kilometre — with mostly stacked housing. The primary school is just over a kilometre away, which keeps the families pillar at a 5.7.
- no. 7,241 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 72 of 93 in Alphen aan den Rijn
How Planetenbuurt-Zuid scores
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Is Planetenbuurt-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Planetenbuurt-Zuid comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Planetenbuurt-Zuid 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, 26 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
Planetenbuurt-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,180 — 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 Planetenbuurt-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Planetenbuurt-Zuid comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Planetenbuurt-Zuid 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 Planetenbuurt-Zuid?
In Planetenbuurt-Zuid the police recorded 26 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Planetenbuurt-Zuid calculated?
Planetenbuurt-Zuid scores 5.8 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 Planetenbuurt-Zuid 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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