neighbourhood in Rijswijk (ZH.)
Plaspoelpolder
1,815 residents · postal code 2288 · Part of Wijk 05, Rijswijk (ZH.)
Everything close by, little to spend
Seven in ten households in Plaspoelpolder consist of one person, family houses are all but absent, and both the share of children and the share of over-65s are below the national picture. That is a population without extremes: many people living alone in the ages in between.
The wealth & income figure of 3.8 does not come from incomes; those are close to the national median. Heavier in the balance are the property value, which stays below the median, and the vacancy rate, which at almost a fifth of all addresses is far above what is usual.
Among the offences, the proportions stand out. Property offences are recorded here more than two and a half times as often as nationally, while burglary is all but absent, at a fraction of the national figure. Violence is above the median, though, so the picture of a place where only things go missing does not entirely hold.
- no. 9,454 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 28 in Rijswijk (ZH.)
How Plaspoelpolder scores
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Is Plaspoelpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Plaspoelpolder comes out at 55 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Plaspoelpolder 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, 340 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
Plaspoelpolder has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 24%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2524%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6515%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
70% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,469 — far less 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 Plaspoelpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Plaspoelpolder comes out at 55 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Plaspoelpolder 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 Plaspoelpolder?
In Plaspoelpolder the police recorded 340 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (55 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 Plaspoelpolder calculated?
Plaspoelpolder scores 4.6 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 Plaspoelpolder 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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