neighbourhood in Hoeksche Waard
Maasdam Woonkern
2,905 residents · postal code 3299 · Part of Maasdam, Hoeksche Waard
Safe, but few children
In Maasdam Woonkern the primary school is eight hundred metres away, and yet the families score gets no further than 5.3. This is the rare case where distance does not explain it: it is down to who lives here. More than a quarter of residents are over 65 and the share of children is below the national level. The pillar counts both, and here they pull the score down while the school sits around the corner.
The 9.2 for safety is solidly founded: violence, property offences and vandalism all three sit below the Dutch middle value, with only burglary marginally above.
What the neighbourhood costs you is access to public transport. The nearest station is eleven kilometres away, the nearest restaurant almost three. A supermarket and a GP are here, both within a kilometre — for anything beyond that, the car is the norm.
- no. 3,405 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 39 in Hoeksche Waard
How Maasdam Woonkern scores
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Is Maasdam Woonkern a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasdam Woonkern comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Maasdam Woonkern 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, 51 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
The age profile of Maasdam Woonkern looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,755 — less 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 Maasdam Woonkern a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasdam Woonkern comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Maasdam Woonkern 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 Maasdam Woonkern?
In Maasdam Woonkern the police recorded 51 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 Maasdam Woonkern calculated?
Maasdam Woonkern scores 8.0 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 Maasdam Woonkern 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 Hoeksche Waard.
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