neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Het Lage Land
11,405 residents · postal code 3067 · Part of Prins Alexander, Rotterdam
Everything close by, safety lags
The number of registered offences in Het Lage Land is at almost double the national middle, and theft is the largest item in that: well over twice the usual level. Burglary also occurs more often and violence is higher than normal; only vandalism keeps exactly to the national median value. The 3.0 for safety therefore does not rest on one type.
The 6.4 for families is a different story. The primary school is a few hundred metres away and that weighs heaviest in that pillar, but the share of households with children stays low and well over a fifth of the residents are sixty-five or older. Meanwhile the noise level is considerable: that quiet still comes out at a 4.8 is due to the greenery and the trees around it.
- no. 10,629 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 43 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Het Lage Land scores
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Is Het Lage Land a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Lage Land comes out at 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Lage Land 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, 733 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
Het Lage Land has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
58% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,338 — 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 Het Lage Land a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Lage Land comes out at 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Lage Land 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 Het Lage Land?
In Het Lage Land the police recorded 733 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (46 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 Het Lage Land calculated?
Het Lage Land 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 Het Lage Land 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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