district in Rotterdam
Prins Alexander
Prins Alexander has 8 neighbourhoods with 97,950 residents in total.
Home to nearly 98,000 people, Prins Alexander is Rotterdam's largest district, a post-war expanse of eight neighbourhoods including Ommoord, Zevenkamp and the newer Nesselande. Amenities are well covered at 7.5, but safety (3.7) and prosperity (4.7) both sit below the national middle, and quiet and nature gets no further than 4.7. The overall mark stops at 4.7: easy to reach and serviceable, but little here stands out from the crowd.
no. 5 of the 16 districts of Rotterdam
Short answer: Prins Alexander scores 4.7 as a district of Rotterdam, no. 5 of the 16 districts of Rotterdam. Its strongest neighbourhood is Nesselande (8.4), the worst Kralingseveer (3.1). The district has 8 neighbourhoods with 97,950 residents in total.
Key figures for Prins Alexander
- residents
- 97,950
- neighbourhoods
- 8
- km² of land
- 17.4
How Prins Alexander 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, 4,728 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.
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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 Prins Alexander looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,875 — 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 Prins Alexander, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Prins Alexander
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Neighbourhoods in Prins Alexander
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