neighbourhood in Gorinchem

Lingewijk

3,030 residents · postal code 4206 · Part of Lingewijk, Gorinchem

Top 34% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Residential burglary is all but absent in Lingewijk — a tenth of what an average Dutch neighbourhood records — and theft too sits below the national median. Even so, safety stops at a 6.9, and that is down to violence: that does sit above the median here, and it carries more weight in this pillar than any other type.

Half the homes were built after the turn of the century and almost four in ten households have children; with a primary school six hundred metres away that gives an 8.9 for families.

Wealth & income lags behind: property values are below the national median and more than twice as much social assistance is paid out as nationally, while vacancy is close to nil. A 4.9 that is mostly about income, not about empty houses.

no. 4,391 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 9 of 20 in Gorinchem

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Is Lingewijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Lingewijk comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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.

Total crime

30.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

5.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 116 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

1.9 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

1.8 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 369,000

Welfare recipients

19.8 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

39%

Social housing

53%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

79%

Built after 2000

50%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

5,579 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

44%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

10%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,866

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.6 km

Households with children

38%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Lingewijk has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,579 — 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 Lingewijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Lingewijk comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Lingewijk?

In Lingewijk the police recorded 116 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Lingewijk calculated?

Lingewijk scores 7.5 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 Lingewijk 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.