neighbourhood in Zoetermeer
Ruimtenbuurt
1,805 residents · postal code 2728 · Part of Noordhove, Zoetermeer
Safe, but everything is a drive away
For the Ruimtenbuurt, Statistics Netherlands publishes neither incomes nor social assistance: there are too few households for that. The wealth & income pillar therefore rests almost entirely on the property value, which is below the national median. A 4.0 with so few components behind it says less than the same figure elsewhere.
What does come through sharply is distance. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all three more than two kilometres away and the railway station more than seven. That pushes the amenities pillar down to 3.8 and works through into the families score, where school distance is the heaviest component.
The noise level is far below the national median and there is more greenery nearby than usual, and yet quiet & nature gets no further than 4.6. Density is the brake here: nearly ten thousand people live per square kilometre.
- no. 12,637 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 24 in Zoetermeer
How Ruimtenbuurt scores
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Is Ruimtenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ruimtenbuurt comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 43 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.
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
The age profile of Ruimtenbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,588 — 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 Ruimtenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ruimtenbuurt comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Ruimtenbuurt?
In Ruimtenbuurt the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Ruimtenbuurt calculated?
Ruimtenbuurt scores 2.8 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 Ruimtenbuurt 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zoetermeer.
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