neighbourhood in Capelle aan den IJssel
Operabuurt
2,060 residents · postal code 2907 · Part of Schollevaar Zuid, Capelle aan den IJssel
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
The Operabuurt has more than fifty social assistance claims per thousand residents, nearly seven times the national median, and a property value at two thirds of the Dutch middle. Wealth & income therefore comes out at 3.2 — the score that pulls the overall 5.5 down on its own.
Alongside it stands a 9.1 for families. The primary school is five hundred metres away, more than a third of households have children and the share of residents under fifteen is above the national middle. That residents have little to spend changes nothing about that; they are two separate worlds in the same postcode.
The safety score of 5.7 comes from violence and vandalism, both above the median, while property crime stays below it. The railway station seven hundred metres away is no small detail for a neighbourhood with this income distribution.
- no. 7,880 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 45 of 66 in Capelle aan den IJssel
How Operabuurt scores
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Is Operabuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Operabuurt 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, 59 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
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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
Operabuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,849 — 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 Operabuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Operabuurt 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 Operabuurt?
In Operabuurt the police recorded 59 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 Operabuurt calculated?
Operabuurt scores 5.5 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 Operabuurt 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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