neighbourhood in Capelle aan den IJssel
Sporenbuurt-west
735 residents · postal code 2908 · Part of Schollevaar Noord, Capelle aan den IJssel
Everything close by, little space
The railway station is seven hundred metres away — exceptionally close for a residential neighbourhood — and that explains both the 8.2 for amenities and the 2.7 for quiet & nature. The noise level here is well above the national median, and noise is one of the five equally weighted components of that pillar.
Safety stalls at a 5.7, and that comes mainly from vandalism: almost three times the national median, while residential burglary is rare. Sporenbuurt-west has just over seven hundred residents, so the counts are small — a year with a lot of damage shows up immediately in the score of a neighbourhood this size.
On wealth & income the heaviest component counts against it: the property value is below the national median. That the pillar still reaches a 7.2 comes from the income distribution and from the absence of social assistance payments.
- no. 6,123 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 37 of 66 in Capelle aan den IJssel
How Sporenbuurt-west scores
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Is Sporenbuurt-west a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sporenbuurt-west comes out at 26 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, 22 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
Sporenbuurt-west has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,450 — 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 Sporenbuurt-west a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sporenbuurt-west comes out at 26 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 Sporenbuurt-west?
In Sporenbuurt-west the police recorded 22 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Sporenbuurt-west calculated?
Sporenbuurt-west scores 6.5 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 Sporenbuurt-west 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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