neighbourhood in Krimpenerwaard
Stolwijk
3,890 residents · postal code 2821 · Part of Stolwijk, Krimpenerwaard
Plenty of space, less prosperity
Stolwijk records clearly fewer reported offences than the national median, and yet the safety pillar stalls at a 6.7. That is not a glitch. What is low here is theft of property; violence and burglary both sit just above the national median, and those two together carry the bulk of the pillar. So a resident mainly notices that little disappears from the street, not that little happens.
The other tension sits in the wealth & income pillar. Homes here are worth roughly what they are elsewhere in the country and vacancy is low, but the share of residents on social assistance is almost twice the national figure. The 5.3 comes from that, not from the bricks. It is a combination you would not immediately expect in a village centre: ordinary house prices alongside a benefit dependency well above the norm.
The quiet & nature pillar leans on greenery and water alike: of the area within three hundred metres a comfortable majority is green, and there is fifteen times as much water as in the average neighbourhood. The tree canopy lags behind.
- no. 4,020 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 26 of 65 in Krimpenerwaard
How Stolwijk scores
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Is Stolwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stolwijk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stolwijk 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, 75 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
Stolwijk has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,474 — 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 Stolwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stolwijk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stolwijk 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 Stolwijk?
In Stolwijk the police recorded 75 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 Stolwijk calculated?
Stolwijk scores 7.7 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 Stolwijk 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 Krimpenerwaard.
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