neighbourhood in IJsselstein
Achterveld-West
2,655 residents · postal code 3403 · Part of IJsselstein, IJsselstein
Safe, and nowhere really weak
Achterveld-West has a 10.0 for its overall score without any single outlier carrying it: none of the five pillars drops below 7.8. All four types of reported offence are below the national median, and the noise level is clearly below it too.
The only thing genuinely far away here is the railway: the nearest station is more than eleven kilometres off. That weighs on the 7.9 for amenities, because every other measured distance — supermarket, GP, restaurant, school — stays within seven hundred metres.
With four in ten households having children and a school around the corner, the 8.5 for families is easy to place; here that score has both distance and the make-up of the population in its favour.
- no. 85 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 28 in IJsselstein
How Achterveld-West scores
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Is Achterveld-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Achterveld-West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Achterveld-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 43 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
The age profile of Achterveld-West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,106 — 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 Achterveld-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Achterveld-West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Achterveld-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Achterveld-West?
In Achterveld-West the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Achterveld-West calculated?
Achterveld-West scores 10.0 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 Achterveld-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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