neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Kralingen Oost
8,595 residents · postal code 3062 · Part of Kralingen-Crooswijk, Rotterdam
Everything close by, safety lags
The number of registered offences in Kralingen Oost lies well above the Dutch middle, but that total is skewed in its make-up. Property crime is registered there almost three times as often as in the average Dutch neighbourhood, while violence stays slightly below it and vandalism hardly deviates at all. A 4.2 for safety therefore means something different here from what the score suggests at first sight: the registrations are predominantly about possessions.
With wealth the tension is in the incomes. The property value reaches more than one and a half times the national level and pulls the 7.7 up, but the distribution beneath it is ambivalent: earners at the top are represented almost twice as thickly as elsewhere, and at the same time the bottom income group is somewhat broader than usual. The middle is thin. On top of that, twice as much stands empty as is usual elsewhere, in a neighbourhood where homes are in fact worth a great deal.
- no. 4,255 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Kralingen Oost scores
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Is Kralingen Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kralingen Oost comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kralingen Oost 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, 557 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
Kralingen Oost has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 28%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2528%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,257 — 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 Kralingen Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kralingen Oost comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kralingen Oost 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 Kralingen Oost?
In Kralingen Oost the police recorded 557 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Kralingen Oost calculated?
Kralingen Oost scores 7.6 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 Kralingen Oost 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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