neighbourhood in Utrecht
Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving
1,790 residents · postal code 3511 · Part of Binnenstad, Utrecht
Everything close by, safety lags
The crime rate around Lange Elisabethstraat and Mariaplaats is almost nine times the national middle, and that is not a measurement error but a consequence of where the neighbourhood sits. Property crime makes up the lion's share; the reports are divided by residents while they largely come from visitors. But violence too runs far above the median here, and that cannot be explained away by shoppers. Hence a 2.6 for safety.
Vacancy stands at a fifth of the housing stock, five times the national middle. In a pillar where property value weighs heaviest, and where that value is high, wealth & income therefore still stops at 7.5.
More than seven in ten households consist of a single person and households with children are the exception here. Amenities reach a 9.8: almost everything is around the corner.
- no. 9,692 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 80 of 107 in Utrecht
How Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving scores
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Is Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving comes out at 206 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving 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, 966 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
Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 56%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–153%
NL median 14%
- 15–2522%
NL median 11%
- 25–4556%
NL median 22%
- 45–6512%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
72% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
4% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,766 — 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 Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving comes out at 206 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving 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 Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving?
In Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving the police recorded 966 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (206 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 Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving calculated?
Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving scores 4.4 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 Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats en omgeving 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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