neighbourhood in Gilze en Rijen
Vliegende Vennen
3,070 residents · postal code 5122 · Part of Rijen, Gilze en Rijen
Everything for children close by, and little room
On every component of the wealth & income pillar, Vliegende Vennen does better than is usual nationally: property values above, the share of high incomes above, the share of low incomes below, the social assistance rate below and vacancy negligible. A 7.6 without qualification, which is rare.
All the more striking, then, is the 3.4 for quiet & nature. There is considerably less greenery around it than is usual nationally, tree canopy lags too, and there is no water. Noise is not the problem — that sits almost exactly on the national middle.
The crime picture is one-sided: theft is above the national median, burglary strikingly far below it, and violence and vandalism also stay under the middle. That is how safety still comes out at a 7.8, even though the total number of reported offences is slightly above the median.
- no. 2,568 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 24 in Gilze en Rijen
How Vliegende Vennen scores
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Is Vliegende Vennen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vliegende Vennen 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, 101 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
Vliegende Vennen has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,641 — 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 Vliegende Vennen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vliegende Vennen 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 Vliegende Vennen?
In Vliegende Vennen the police recorded 101 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 Vliegende Vennen calculated?
Vliegende Vennen 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 Vliegende Vennen 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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