neighbourhood in Gilze en Rijen
Prinsenbosch
1,880 residents · postal code 5126 · Part of Gilze, Gilze en Rijen
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
In Prinsenbosch eighty-four per cent of addresses stand vacant, more than twenty times the national middle. Not a single home is owner-occupied, not a single household has children, and almost every household consists of one person. This is not a residential neighbourhood in the ordinary sense.
Incomes and social assistance are largely missing here: with this few households, Statistics Netherlands does not publish those figures. No property value is listed either, so the 5.4 for wealth & income rests on less than its full weight.
What is solid is the quiet & nature pillar: an 8.8. Noise is almost nine decibels below the national median and the tree canopy is more than four times as dense as is usual nationally. Amenities and families, by contrast, stay at the bottom, with everything three kilometres away or more.
- no. 12,583 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 24 in Gilze en Rijen
How Prinsenbosch scores
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Is Prinsenbosch a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Prinsenbosch comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 36 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
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
Who lives here
Prinsenbosch has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 28%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2528%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6511%
NL median 28%
- 65+1%
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
1.1 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
93% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
0% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,765 — 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 Prinsenbosch a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Prinsenbosch comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Prinsenbosch?
In Prinsenbosch the police recorded 36 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Prinsenbosch calculated?
Prinsenbosch scores 2.8 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 Prinsenbosch 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 Gilze en Rijen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Gilze en Rijen.
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