neighbourhood in Altena
Woudrichem zuid
3,060 residents · postal code 4285 · Part of Woudrichem, Altena
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Everything you need day to day in Woudrichem zuid is within half a kilometre: supermarket, GP, restaurant and primary school. Even so the amenities pillar gets no higher than a 7.6, and that is entirely down to the station — far enough away to be no option for commuters without a car.
Safety reaches an 8.7 with all four types of offence below the national median, theft most clearly of all. With more than three thousand residents that is a stable picture, not a one-year fluke.
Wealth & income hovers in the middle at a 5.5, and that is an honest figure: the share of high incomes is exactly on the national median, property values just below it, vacancy far below and the social assistance rate above. Four components pointing four ways — no single story can be made of that.
- no. 1,525 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 58 in Altena
How Woudrichem zuid scores
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Is Woudrichem zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Woudrichem zuid comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Woudrichem zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 53 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 Woudrichem zuid looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,130 — 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 Woudrichem zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Woudrichem zuid comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Woudrichem zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Woudrichem zuid?
In Woudrichem zuid the police recorded 53 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Woudrichem zuid calculated?
Woudrichem zuid scores 9.1 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 Woudrichem zuid 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Altena
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Altena.
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