neighbourhood in Utrecht
Rubenslaan en omgeving
3,820 residents · postal code 3582 · Part of Oost, Utrecht
Everything close by, safety lags
In Rubenslaan en omgeving nearly nine in ten households consist of a single person, and barely one in twenty-five has children. Yet there is a 7.2 for families. That pillar measures distance to school and childcare for nearly two thirds, and the primary school here is four hundred metres away. The figure describes the infrastructure, not the residents.
The wealth & income pillar shows a combination you rarely see. Almost six in ten households have a low income, well above the national share, while the number of social assistance claims per thousand residents sits barely above the Dutch median. On top of that comes a vacancy rate three times the national level. That last number is the most remarkable on this page.
Among the offences theft is by far the largest item — a good three times the Dutch median — while violence sits only slightly above it. That pushes the safety pillar to a 2.8, putting the neighbourhood among the country's lowest on this point.
- no. 10,784 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 91 of 107 in Utrecht
How Rubenslaan en omgeving scores
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Is Rubenslaan en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rubenslaan en omgeving comes out at 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rubenslaan 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, 282 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
Rubenslaan en omgeving has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 46%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–153%
NL median 14%
- 15–2546%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–658%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
1.2 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
87% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
4% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,562 — 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 Rubenslaan en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rubenslaan en omgeving comes out at 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rubenslaan 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 Rubenslaan en omgeving?
In Rubenslaan en omgeving the police recorded 282 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (54 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 Rubenslaan en omgeving calculated?
Rubenslaan en omgeving 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 Rubenslaan 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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