neighbourhood in Utrecht

Leeuwesteyn

3,280 residents · postal code 3541 · Part of Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht

Bottom 38% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Leeuwesteyn has one of the youngest populations in the country: more than a quarter of residents are under fifteen and only a fraction are 65 or older. That lifts the families pillar to 8.0, together with the primary school eight hundred metres away.

The wealth & income picture points two ways at once; that is where the story sits. Property value is above the national middle and the top income group is almost twice as broad as nationally, while the social assistance rate is well over six times the median. A neighbourhood that departs from the average at the top and the bottom at the same time; the 6.1 that comes out of it does not tell you that.

On safety only theft is sharply above, at more than twice the national middle. The low quiet & nature score of 3.7 comes from little greenery and a lot of noise.

no. 8,197 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 64 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Leeuwesteyn a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

46.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

21.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 208 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

1.3 km

GP practice

1.9 km

Train station

2.1 km

Restaurant

1.4 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

2.4 km

Library

2.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 468,000

Welfare recipients

48.8 per 1,000

High incomes

37%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

36%

Social housing

61%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

38%

Built after 2000

100%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

6,453 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

Water share

15%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

3,051

Fine particles (PM2.5)

10.0 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.8 km

Households with children

35%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

26%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Leeuwesteyn has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 50%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1526%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4550%
NL median 22%
45–6513%
NL median 28%
65+3%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,453 — 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 Leeuwesteyn a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Leeuwesteyn comes out at 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Leeuwesteyn 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 Leeuwesteyn?

In Leeuwesteyn the police recorded 208 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 Leeuwesteyn calculated?

Leeuwesteyn scores 5.3 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 Leeuwesteyn 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.