neighbourhood in Rijswijk (ZH.)
Oud-Rijswijk
2,690 residents · postal code 2282 · Part of Wijk 02, Rijswijk (ZH.)
Everything close by, little space
Of every ten reported offences in Oud-Rijswijk, well over half are property crimes, and that figure runs more than twice the national middle. Violence, by contrast, is below it. That is the profile of a busy shopping area where things disappear, not of a place where trouble starts on the street at night — and it explains why the safety pillar stays at 5.6 while the violence figure is low.
The 9.9 for amenities and the 3.2 for quiet & nature are two sides of the same thing: everything is within a few hundred metres because it is built close together, with more than ten thousand residents per square kilometre, little green and noise levels well above the Dutch middle. On wealth & income the picture is mixed: the share of high incomes is above the national level and the bottom group is thinner, but property value stays below the median and social assistance runs well above it.
- no. 4,459 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 28 in Rijswijk (ZH.)
How Oud-Rijswijk scores
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Is Oud-Rijswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oud-Rijswijk comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oud-Rijswijk 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, 169 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
Oud-Rijswijk has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,238 — 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 Oud-Rijswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oud-Rijswijk comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oud-Rijswijk 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 Oud-Rijswijk?
In Oud-Rijswijk the police recorded 169 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Oud-Rijswijk calculated?
Oud-Rijswijk scores 7.4 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 Oud-Rijswijk 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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