neighbourhood in Gilze en Rijen
Wolfsweide
3,810 residents · postal code 5121 · Part of Rijen, Gilze en Rijen
Safe streets, thinner wallets
In Wolfsweide each of the four recorded types of offence sits below the Dutch median — burglary at a fraction of it and theft at a good third. The total of reported offences is less than two thirds of what is usual nationally. That fully explains the 9.1 for safety: there is no category pulling the figure back.
Noise here sits a good three decibels below the Dutch median, strikingly quiet for a neighbourhood of this building density. Even so the quiet & nature pillar gets no further than a 6.1, and that is down to greenery: both the green share and the canopy hover at or below the national median. Quiet and greenery do not run together here.
The wealth & income pillar stays at a 4.7 through two things at once: a property value well below the Dutch median and a social assistance level nearly three times the national one. The income distribution itself barely differs, and vacancy at one per cent is negligible.
- no. 4,605 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 24 in Gilze en Rijen
How Wolfsweide scores
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Is Wolfsweide a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wolfsweide comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wolfsweide 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, 62 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 Wolfsweide looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,302 — 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 Wolfsweide a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wolfsweide comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wolfsweide 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 Wolfsweide?
In Wolfsweide the police recorded 62 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 Wolfsweide calculated?
Wolfsweide scores 7.4 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 Wolfsweide 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Gilze en Rijen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Gilze en Rijen.
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