neighbourhood in Hardinxveld-Giessendam
Wielwijk-zuid
2,585 residents · postal code 3371 · Part of Neder Hardinxveld, Hardinxveld-Giessendam
Everything for children close by, and little room
Wielwijk-zuid combines a 9.1 for families with a 4.2 for wealth & income, and both figures are about the same kind of household. The school is five hundred metres away and four in ten households have children — that lifts the first pillar. At the same time the property value stays well below the national median and there are more low incomes than usual. Affordable family housing within walking distance of a school is exactly what these two figures say together.
The 3.9 for quiet & nature is surprising in a neighbourhood where almost a quarter of the surface is water. That weight is wiped out by the other components: the noise level is well above the median, the greenery within three hundred metres far below it, and the buildings stand close together.
Safety here is good: violence and property crime both remain well under the national middle.
- no. 4,451 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 17 in Hardinxveld-Giessendam
How Wielwijk-zuid scores
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Is Wielwijk-zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wielwijk-zuid comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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.
In 2025, 65 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
Wielwijk-zuid has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,038 — 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 Wielwijk-zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wielwijk-zuid comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Wielwijk-zuid?
In Wielwijk-zuid the police recorded 65 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Wielwijk-zuid calculated?
Wielwijk-zuid 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 Wielwijk-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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hardinxveld-Giessendam.
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