neighbourhood in Alphen aan den Rijn
Stromenbuurt
2,610 residents · postal code 2401 · Part of Oudshoorn, Alphen aan den Rijn
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
A 9.6 for families next to a 3.9 for wealth & income: the Stromenbuurt is one of those places where the two figures do not know each other. The school is four hundred metres away and almost four in ten households have children — that pillar stands firm. The wealth pillar, by contrast, has not a single favourable component apart from vacancy: property value below the median, few high incomes, many low ones, and a social assistance rate that leaves the national median far behind.
The safety score is decided by one offence type. Violence is clearly above the national median here, while theft and vandalism stay below it and burglary sits exactly on it. That is the reverse of the usual urban picture, where the numbers mostly come from property crime.
- no. 7,229 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 71 of 93 in Alphen aan den Rijn
How Stromenbuurt scores
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Is Stromenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stromenbuurt comes out at 22 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, 69 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
Stromenbuurt has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 13%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,689 — 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 Stromenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stromenbuurt comes out at 22 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 Stromenbuurt?
In Stromenbuurt the police recorded 69 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Stromenbuurt calculated?
Stromenbuurt scores 5.9 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 Stromenbuurt 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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