neighbourhood in Lelystad

Flora West

1,550 residents · postal code 8245 · Part of Warande, Lelystad

Top 5% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

Flora West is a neighbourhood of children: more than half of households have children, almost three in ten residents are under fifteen and only one in twenty is 65 or older. Even so the families score rises no higher than 8.1, and that is down to the primary school being more than a kilometre away — school distance weighs more heavily in that pillar than the share of children.

The 9.9 for safety stands against that: all four recorded offence types are below the national median and the total at less than half of it. The wealth pillar too is strong across the board.

What is missing is greenery. The tree canopy here covers less than a quarter of the national share and green space within walking distance also falls short; the quiet & nature pillar therefore stalls at 4.7, in a neighbourhood built entirely after 2000.

no. 614 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 2 of 87 in Lelystad

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Is Flora West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Flora West comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Flora 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.

Total crime

10.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

3.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 12 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

4.0 km

Restaurant

2.4 km

Hospital

3.7 km

Café

4.1 km

Library

3.7 km

Motorway ramp

4.4 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 447,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

29%

Low incomes

25%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

74%

Social housing

11%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

93%

Built after 2000

100%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

5,167 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

42%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

627

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.3 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.4 km

Households with children

56%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

2.9 km

Residents under 15

29%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Flora West has strikingly many children under 15: 29%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1529%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4539%
NL median 22%
45–6518%
NL median 28%
65+5%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
56% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,167 — 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 Flora West a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Flora West?

In Flora West the police recorded 12 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 Flora West calculated?

Flora West scores 9.6 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 Flora 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.