neighbourhood in Rijswijk (ZH.)
Ministerbuurt
3,725 residents · postal code 2285 · Part of Wijk 08, Rijswijk (ZH.)
Everything close by, safety lags
Social assistance density in the Ministerbuurt runs at around six times the national median, while the share of high incomes sits exactly on it. Together with a property value well below the middle, that pushes wealth & income down to 3.6 — so it is not the top of the income distribution that is missing here.
Amenities, by contrast, score high at 9.1: everything is within six hundred metres and the station less than two kilometres away. This Rijswijk neighbourhood is excellently connected and at the same time harshly judged on what people earn.
The 3.7 for quiet & nature is not down to vegetation — the tree canopy is well above the national median. It lies in the noise, five decibels above the national level, and in the number of people per square kilometre.
- no. 10,618 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 28 in Rijswijk (ZH.)
How Ministerbuurt scores
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Is Ministerbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ministerbuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Ministerbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 217 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
Ministerbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,488 — 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 Ministerbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ministerbuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Ministerbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Ministerbuurt?
In Ministerbuurt the police recorded 217 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Ministerbuurt calculated?
Ministerbuurt scores 3.9 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 Ministerbuurt 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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