neighbourhood in IJsselstein
De Hoven en De Boomgaard
2,160 residents · postal code 3404 · Part of IJsselstein, IJsselstein
Safe, but not spacious
With a 10.0 for safety, De Hoven en De Boomgaard belongs to the fifty best-scoring neighbourhoods in the country on that pillar, and that figure rests on a clean foundation: violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage all four sit below the national median, burglary at close to zero. The total comes out at less than half the national middle.
Half of households have children and only one in ten residents is sixty-five or older. Even so, families gets no further than 7.8, and that is down to the primary school a kilometre away — distance weighs more in that pillar than who lives here.
The station is twelve kilometres out, which holds the amenities pillar at 5.7 while the supermarket and the GP are within a kilometre.
The 3.5 for quiet & nature comes not from greenery, which lands exactly on the national median, but from a tree canopy at a little over half the middle, the absence of water and seven thousand residents to the square kilometre.
- no. 912 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 28 in IJsselstein
How De Hoven en De Boomgaard scores
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Is De Hoven en De Boomgaard a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Hoven en De Boomgaard comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Hoven en De Boomgaard 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, 20 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
De Hoven en De Boomgaard has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6537%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,048 — 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 De Hoven en De Boomgaard a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Hoven en De Boomgaard comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Hoven en De Boomgaard 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 De Hoven en De Boomgaard?
In De Hoven en De Boomgaard the police recorded 20 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 De Hoven en De Boomgaard calculated?
De Hoven en De Boomgaard scores 9.5 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 De Hoven en De Boomgaard 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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