neighbourhood in Utrecht
Rijnenburg
270 residents · postal code 3546 · Part of Vleuten-De Meern, Utrecht
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
Rijnenburg has two hundred and seventy residents spread across a large stretch of polder, and that makes its crime figures useless as a picture of daily life. The violence rate is a multiple of the national median, but with a population that small every report translates into an enormous figure per thousand. The 3.2 for safety rests on a handful of cases.
The wealth & income pillar is less clear-cut than the 8.1 suggests. Property value is more than double the national median and that component weighs heaviest, but the share of low incomes is above the middle and vacancy runs at more than three times the national level.
What is solid: this is one of the quietest and greenest spots in Utrecht, with an 8.4 for quiet & nature, and at the same time a 3.0 for families — primary school, supermarket and GP are all more than two kilometres away.
- no. 11,669 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 100 of 107 in Utrecht
How Rijnenburg scores
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Is Rijnenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rijnenburg comes out at 84 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rijnenburg 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, 68 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
Rijnenburg has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
26 — far less 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 Rijnenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rijnenburg comes out at 84 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rijnenburg 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 Rijnenburg?
In Rijnenburg the police recorded 68 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (84 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 Rijnenburg calculated?
Rijnenburg scores 3.3 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 Rijnenburg 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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