neighbourhood in Montfoort
Linschoten
3,555 residents · postal code 3461 · Part of Linschoten, Montfoort
Safe, but not spacious
Linschoten is in the country's top hundred for safety, and that 10.0 rests on all four components at once: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism each sit far below the national median. Such completeness is not rare in a village this size, but it is rarely this pronounced.
Quiet & nature is the score that needs explaining. Greenery in the surroundings is well above the median, but tree canopy comes to half of it and traffic noise is above the Dutch middle. Hence a 6.3 and no higher: open land is not the same as sheltered land.
For families, a school five hundred metres away combined with almost four in ten households having children produces an 8.6. The station is more than four kilometres off.
- no. 245 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 11 in Montfoort
How Linschoten scores
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Is Linschoten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Linschoten comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Linschoten 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 Linschoten looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
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
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,948 — 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 Linschoten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Linschoten comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Linschoten 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 Linschoten?
In Linschoten the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Linschoten calculated?
Linschoten scores 9.9 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 Linschoten 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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