neighbourhood in Dijk en Waard
Stad van de Zon
4,335 residents · postal code 1705 · Part of Stad van de Zon, Dijk en Waard
Everything for children close by, and little room
Stad van de Zon was built entirely after 2000 and that can be read off every figure in this report. Almost half of households have children and the primary school is four hundred metres away, together good for a 9.6 for families.
Quiet & nature stalls at a 3.7, which at first sight is odd with a third of the area being water. The explanation lies in the other components: the tree canopy is less than a quarter of the national median and green space within three hundred metres stays far below it. Water does not compensate, because all five components count equally.
The 7.1 for safety rests on little violence and little burglary; only vandalism here runs at almost twice the national median.
- no. 2,363 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 13 of 58 in Dijk en Waard
How Stad van de Zon scores
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Is Stad van de Zon a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stad van de Zon comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 99 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
Stad van de Zon has strikingly many children under 15: 22%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,126 — 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 Stad van de Zon a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stad van de Zon comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Stad van de Zon?
In Stad van de Zon the police recorded 99 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Stad van de Zon calculated?
Stad van de Zon scores 8.6 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 Stad van de Zon 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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