neighbourhood in Hardinxveld-Giessendam
Giessendam-West
3,500 residents · postal code 3371 · Part of Giessendam, Hardinxveld-Giessendam
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
A railway station seven hundred metres away is exceptional for a neighbourhood of this size, and together with a primary school four hundred metres off it makes Giessendam-West unusually reachable without a car. The GP is the only amenity further away than is usual nationally.
The 9.3 for families leans on that school distance and on the population: more than four in ten households have children and the share of young people is above the national middle.
The wealth & income pillar is the figure out of line, though not for the reason you would expect. The income distribution barely differs from the national one and vacancy sits exactly on the median; the social assistance rate is close to double and the property value below the middle. Since property value determines almost four tenths of that pillar, that is where the 5.2 comes from.
- no. 1,964 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 17 in Hardinxveld-Giessendam
How Giessendam-West scores
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Is Giessendam-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Giessendam-West comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Giessendam-West 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, 67 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
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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
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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
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Who lives here
Giessendam-West has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,364 — 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 Giessendam-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Giessendam-West comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Giessendam-West 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 Giessendam-West?
In Giessendam-West the police recorded 67 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Giessendam-West calculated?
Giessendam-West scores 8.9 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 Giessendam-West 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 Hardinxveld-Giessendam
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hardinxveld-Giessendam.
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