neighbourhood in Haarlem
Zuiderpolder-zuid
1,030 residents · postal code 2033 · Part of Parkwijk, Haarlem
Everything for children close by, and little room
Among the Haarlem neighbourhoods with an overall score above nine, Zuiderpolder-zuid stands out for who lives there: more than a third of residents are 65 or older. The families score of 8.6 therefore says nothing about the number of children — it says the primary school is three hundred metres away, and distance is the heaviest component of that pillar.
The 8.5 for safety rests mainly on little violence: it occurs well below the national middle here. Burglary is the exception and lies above the median — the only offence type that does.
Quiet & nature is the weak point at 4.4, and that does not come from noise; sound levels are below the national median. It is the building density, with almost nine thousand residents per square kilometre, on a green share that is exactly average.
- no. 1,809 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 39 of 97 in Haarlem
How Zuiderpolder-zuid scores
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Is Zuiderpolder-zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuiderpolder-zuid comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zuiderpolder-zuid 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, 12 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
Zuiderpolder-zuid has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,933 — 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 Zuiderpolder-zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuiderpolder-zuid comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zuiderpolder-zuid 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 Zuiderpolder-zuid?
In Zuiderpolder-zuid the police recorded 12 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 Zuiderpolder-zuid calculated?
Zuiderpolder-zuid scores 9.0 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 Zuiderpolder-zuid 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 Haarlem
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haarlem.
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