district in Gilze en Rijen
Rijen
Rijen has 13 neighbourhoods with 16,940 residents in total.
Rijen has thirteen neighbourhoods and nearly 17,000 residents in the Brabant municipality of Gilze en Rijen. Amenities stand out at 7.9, while safety (7.3) and the overall (7.0) hold up well. Wealth and income (5.1) and quiet and nature (4.7) stay below the median. Families land on 7.2. A down-to-earth railway village between Breda and Tilburg, with the Gilze-Rijen airbase nearby.
no. 1 of the 4 districts of Gilze en Rijen
Short answer: Rijen scores 7.0 as a district of Gilze en Rijen, no. 1 of the 4 districts of Gilze en Rijen. Its strongest neighbourhood is Vliegende Vennen (8.5), the worst Buitengebied Zuid Rijen (3.2). The district has 13 neighbourhoods with 16,940 residents in total.
Key figures for Rijen
- residents
- 16,940
- neighbourhoods
- 13
- km² of land
- 18.5
How Rijen scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 555 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
The age profile of Rijen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,924 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Rijen, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Rijen
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Rijen.
Neighbourhoods in Rijen
Sorted by total grade