neighbourhood in Utrecht

Leidsche Rijn-Centrum

4,150 residents · postal code 3541 · Part of Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht

Bottom 18% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Of every ten reported offences in Leidsche Rijn-Centrum, close to seven involve property — five times the rate of the average Dutch neighbourhood. Burglary, by contrast, is below the median. Even so, this is not only a story about things: violence here is also above the national median, and that carries the most weight in the safety pillar.

The quiet & nature score of 2.5 is among the lowest in the country. Noise runs almost twelve decibels above the median, and the tree canopy covers a fraction of what is usual nationally.

Wealth & income is split: many households on a high income, few on a low one, but a vacancy rate more than four times the national median. For a district where every building dates from after 2000, that last figure stands out.

no. 10,799 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 92 of 107 in Utrecht

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Is Leidsche Rijn-Centrum 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

69.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

47.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 477 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

1.9 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 419,000

Welfare recipients

31.3 per 1,000

High incomes

32%

Low incomes

20%

Vacancy

17%

Owner-occupied

20%

Social housing

14%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

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

8,068 inw/km²

Noise level

63 dB

Green surroundings

25%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,835

Fine particles (PM2.5)

10.3 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

0.5 km

Households with children

11%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Leidsche Rijn-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 65%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4565%
NL median 22%
45–6511%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,068 — 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 Leidsche Rijn-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Leidsche Rijn-Centrum comes out at 70 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Leidsche Rijn-Centrum 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 Leidsche Rijn-Centrum?

In Leidsche Rijn-Centrum the police recorded 477 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (70 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 Leidsche Rijn-Centrum calculated?

Leidsche Rijn-Centrum scores 3.8 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 Leidsche Rijn-Centrum 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.