neighbourhood in Alphen aan den Rijn
Snijdelwijk
1,855 residents · postal code 2771 · Part of Boskoop, Alphen aan den Rijn
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Snijdelwijk combines a 9.3 for safety with a 4.1 for wealth & income, and those are two stories that stand apart. The first: every recorded offence type is below the national median, with burglary close to zero. The second: social assistance runs at more than three times the national rate, almost half of all households fall into the lowest income group and property value lags — only vacancy is minimal.
The GP, almost two kilometres away, is the bottleneck in amenities; the supermarket and school are close by, and the latter lifts the families pillar to an 8.3. Quiet & nature comes out at a 6.9, with plenty of greenery nearby and a noise level below the median.
- no. 2,635 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 35 of 93 in Alphen aan den Rijn
How Snijdelwijk scores
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Is Snijdelwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Snijdelwijk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Snijdelwijk 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, 32 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
Snijdelwijk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,689 — 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 Snijdelwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Snijdelwijk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Snijdelwijk 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 Snijdelwijk?
In Snijdelwijk the police recorded 32 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 Snijdelwijk calculated?
Snijdelwijk scores 8.5 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 Snijdelwijk 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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