neighbourhood in Beverwijk
Zwaansmeer
1,730 residents · postal code 1946 · Part of Oosterwijk en Zwaansmeer, Beverwijk
Good for children, with a safety question
Zwaansmeer earns a families score among the two hundred highest in the Netherlands: the primary school is three hundred metres away, more than four in ten households have children, and the share of young residents is above the national middle. Next to that 9.9 stands a 3.6 for safety, and that is the tension in this neighbourhood.
That low safety score comes from two types at once. Vandalism is more than three times the national median, violence more than twice, while burglary stays below it and property crime barely above. The problem here plays out on the street, not behind the front door.
The homes are mostly single-family houses, but property values are almost eighty thousand euros below the national median and the social assistance rate is three times the middle. Hence the 4.2 for wealth & income. As for quiet & nature: noise is only slightly above the national level, so that 3.8 comes from the missing water and from greenery that stays below the median.
- no. 7,554 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 21 of 33 in Beverwijk
How Zwaansmeer scores
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Is Zwaansmeer a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zwaansmeer comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zwaansmeer 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, 105 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
Zwaansmeer has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,677 — 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 Zwaansmeer a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zwaansmeer comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zwaansmeer 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 Zwaansmeer?
In Zwaansmeer the police recorded 105 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (45 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 Zwaansmeer calculated?
Zwaansmeer scores 5.7 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 Zwaansmeer 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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