neighbourhood in Rhenen

Elst Centrum

2,835 residents · postal code 3921 · Part of Elst, Rhenen

Top 7% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Two thirds of the surroundings of Elst Centrum are green, well above the Dutch middle, and the noise level lies clearly below it. That is where the 7.6 for quiet & nature comes from, and for a neighbourhood calling itself Centrum it is an unusual outcome. The safety pillar of 9.7 fits with it: all four offence types stay below the national median, violence at a quarter of it.

The wealth & income pillar of 5.2 is the figure that demands attention, and it is only partly a story of disadvantage. There is almost no vacancy and the property value sits close to the national median; what drags the pillar down is a social assistance rate of nearly three times the national one, together with a low-income group somewhat wider than average. The 8.2 for families holds up across the board: school at five hundred metres, well over a third of households with children. Only the railway station is six kilometres away.

no. 789 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 5 of 28 in Rhenen

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Is Elst Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elst Centrum comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Elst Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

14.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

4.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 44 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

0.8 km

Train station

6.0 km

Restaurant

0.8 km

Hospital

5.7 km

Café

1.0 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.3 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

€ 412,000

Welfare recipients

21.2 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

64%

Social housing

31%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

95%

Built after 2000

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

3,860 inw/km²

Noise level

47 dB

Green surroundings

67%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

551

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

0.5 km

Households with children

36%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

4.9 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Elst Centrum has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,860 — 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 Elst Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Elst Centrum?

In Elst Centrum the police recorded 44 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Elst Centrum calculated?

Elst Centrum 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 Elst Centrum 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.