neighbourhood in Pijnacker-Nootdorp
Achter het Raadhuis
4,275 residents · postal code 2631 · Part of Nootdorp, Pijnacker-Nootdorp
Safe, but not spacious
The noise level here is below the national median and yet quiet & nature gets no further than a 3.5. The reason is in the other measurements: dense building, greenery and tree canopy below the national level, and no open water. In Achter het Raadhuis, quiet is not the same as spacious.
All four offence types are below the median and the total at roughly half of it — hence a 9.8 for safety, and together with a property value far above the national level that lifts the overall score to a 9.7.
What you give up here is accessibility of a different kind. The supermarket is more than a kilometre away and the station nearly three, while the GP and the school are around the corner. For daily rail commuters that is the figure to look at, not the overall score.
- no. 580 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 31 in Pijnacker-Nootdorp
How Achter het Raadhuis scores
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Is Achter het Raadhuis a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Achter het Raadhuis comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Achter het Raadhuis 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, 58 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
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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
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Who lives here
Achter het Raadhuis has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 37%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6537%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,050 — 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 Achter het Raadhuis a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Achter het Raadhuis comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Achter het Raadhuis 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 Achter het Raadhuis?
In Achter het Raadhuis the police recorded 58 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Achter het Raadhuis calculated?
Achter het Raadhuis scores 9.7 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 Achter het Raadhuis 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 Pijnacker-Nootdorp
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Pijnacker-Nootdorp.
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