neighbourhood in Gorinchem
Gildenwijk
5,015 residents · postal code 4204 · Part of Gildenwijk, Gorinchem
Everything close by, little to spend
A 9.8 for amenities and a 2.6 for wealth in the same neighbourhood. In Gildenwijk shop, GP, school and restaurant are all a few minutes' walk away, and at the same time this is among the poorest neighbourhoods in the country: few households have a high income, more than half are in the bottom group, and social assistance lies seven times above it.
Among the offences all counted types come out above the Dutch median, violence and theft most clearly. Theft is reported the most often here and weighs the heaviest of those four, but it is the violence figure that brings the safety pillar down.
Whoever lives here is often alone and often old: almost six in ten households are single-person households and a third of residents are 65 or over. For the families figure that makes little difference — that pillar leans heavily on the distance to school, and that is short here.
- no. 10,548 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 20 in Gorinchem
How Gildenwijk scores
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Is Gildenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Gildenwijk comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Gildenwijk 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, 289 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
Gildenwijk has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+32%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
58% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,775 — 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 Gildenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Gildenwijk comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Gildenwijk 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 Gildenwijk?
In Gildenwijk the police recorded 289 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (44 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 Gildenwijk calculated?
Gildenwijk scores 3.9 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 Gildenwijk 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 Gorinchem.
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