neighbourhood in De Ronde Venen
de Maricken-Veenzijde
4,840 residents · postal code 3648 · Part of Wilnis, De Ronde Venen
Everything for children close by, and little room
The most striking thing about de Maricken-Veenzijde is what is missing: a weak point. None of the five pillars drops below 5.7, and that is where the overall score of 9.5 comes from — not from one outlier upwards.
That 5.7 is for quiet & nature, and it is not the noise that keeps it low. The noise level is at the national average and the greenery share lies above the median; what counts is that many people live on little ground, combined with a tree canopy that lags behind.
At the other end of the scale stands a 9.2 for families, and there the picture the score evokes really does hold. Almost half of households have children, the primary school is four hundred metres away and the share of young children lies above the national level. Here the population carries the score just as much as the distance.
- no. 883 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 24 in De Ronde Venen
How de Maricken-Veenzijde scores
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Is de Maricken-Veenzijde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, de Maricken-Veenzijde comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: de Maricken-Veenzijde 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, 72 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
de Maricken-Veenzijde has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,024 — 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 de Maricken-Veenzijde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, de Maricken-Veenzijde comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: de Maricken-Veenzijde 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 de Maricken-Veenzijde?
In de Maricken-Veenzijde the police recorded 72 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 de Maricken-Veenzijde calculated?
de Maricken-Veenzijde scores 9.5 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 de Maricken-Veenzijde 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 De Ronde Venen.
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