neighbourhood in Dijk en Waard
Zuidwijk
3,850 residents · postal code 1705 · Part of Zuidwijk, Dijk en Waard
Everything for children close by, and little room
Zuidwijk was built almost entirely after the turn of the century: a good nine in ten homes date from after 2000. That is exceptional and it shows in the rest of the profile. Half of households have children, the share of over-65s sits far below the national median, and the families pillar comes out at an 8.7 as a result.
Even so the quiet & nature pillar stays at a 4.7, and that deserves explaining. Noise here sits below the Dutch median and a fifth of the area is water — a good forty times the average neighbourhood. What depresses the pillar is building density and the fact that there is less greenery within three hundred metres than nationally, with a thin tree canopy.
Among the amenities one distance stands out between four short ones: the nearest restaurant is a good two kilometres away, while supermarket, GP and school are all within eight hundred metres. For anyone doing the shopping here that is no problem; for anyone wanting to eat out, it is.
- no. 2,965 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 21 of 58 in Dijk en Waard
How Zuidwijk scores
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Is Zuidwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuidwijk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zuidwijk 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, 66 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
Zuidwijk has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,731 — 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 Zuidwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuidwijk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zuidwijk 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 Zuidwijk?
In Zuidwijk the police recorded 66 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Zuidwijk calculated?
Zuidwijk scores 8.3 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 Zuidwijk 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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