neighbourhood in Dijk en Waard
Mayersloot Zuid
2,175 residents · postal code 1721 · Part of Broek op Langedijk, Dijk en Waard
Safe, but not spacious
With a 9.9, Mayersloot Zuid sits among the two hundred best-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and what is remarkable is that none of the five pillars has to be exceptionally high to get there — the lowest is a 5.4 and the rest are above seven.
The 9.8 for safety does have a clean foundation: violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage all four sit below the national median, and the total at roughly half of it.
The 5.4 for quiet & nature is the odd figure out, and not because water is missing: the share of water here is more than thirty times the national middle. What falls short are greenery and tree canopy, both below the median, at almost six thousand residents on a square kilometre. Plenty of water, few trees.
The 9.7 for families comes from the primary school four hundred metres away and from the nearly half of households with children. What does not fit that is the age structure: more than one in five residents is sixty-five or older.
- no. 150 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 58 in Dijk en Waard
How Mayersloot Zuid scores
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Is Mayersloot Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Mayersloot Zuid comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Mayersloot 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, 26 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
Mayersloot Zuid has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,824 — 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 Mayersloot Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Mayersloot Zuid comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Mayersloot 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 Mayersloot Zuid?
In Mayersloot Zuid the police recorded 26 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 Mayersloot Zuid calculated?
Mayersloot Zuid scores 9.9 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 Mayersloot 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Dijk en Waard.
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