neighbourhood in Dijk en Waard
Schrijverswijk
2,890 residents · postal code 1702 · Part of Schrijverswijk, Dijk en Waard
Good for children, with a safety question
Schrijverswijk shows how far apart two figures within a single neighbourhood can lie. Families score 9.2, with the primary school four hundred metres away. Safety scores 3.2, built up from vandalism at more than double the national middle value and property offences at more than one and a half times that level. Violence and burglary are above it too, though less markedly.
That is a combination you feel in practice: everything a child needs is around the corner, and at the same time more gets broken and more goes missing in these streets than in the ordinary Dutch neighbourhood.
Wealth and income comes out at 4.2. Property value is below the national middle, the top income group is narrower than elsewhere and social assistance runs at more than three times the Dutch level; only vacancy stays far below it.
- no. 8,334 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 45 of 58 in Dijk en Waard
How Schrijverswijk scores
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Is Schrijverswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schrijverswijk comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schrijverswijk 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, 150 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 Schrijverswijk 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%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,451 — 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 Schrijverswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schrijverswijk comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schrijverswijk 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 Schrijverswijk?
In Schrijverswijk the police recorded 150 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Schrijverswijk calculated?
Schrijverswijk scores 5.2 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 Schrijverswijk 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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