neighbourhood in Leeuwarden

Jan van Scorelbuurt

1,800 residents · postal code 8932 · Part of Huizum-West, Leeuwarden

Bottom 8% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

Vandalism stands out in the Jan van Scorelbuurt: it is recorded more than five times as often as in the average Dutch neighbourhood. Violence, burglary and theft are above the national median too, and the safety score gets no further than 2.7 as a result.

The 8.9 for families comes from a different direction than the name suggests: six in ten households consist of one person, but the primary school is three hundred metres away and that weighs heaviest in this pillar. On wealth & income the rate of social assistance is the most pronounced figure — a multiple of the national median — while vacancy stays below the median. The score that follows is among the lowest five per cent in the country.

no. 12,133 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 78 of 111 in Leeuwarden

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Is Jan van Scorelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

49.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.9 per 1,000

Property crime

13.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

11.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 124 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

1.2 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

3.4 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 187,000

Welfare recipients

94.4 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

48%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

29%

Social housing

64%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

51%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

5,698 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

30%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,704

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.3 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.3 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Jan van Scorelbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4540%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+10%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,698 — 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 Jan van Scorelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Jan van Scorelbuurt comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Jan van Scorelbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Jan van Scorelbuurt?

In Jan van Scorelbuurt the police recorded 124 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 Jan van Scorelbuurt calculated?

Jan van Scorelbuurt scores 3.0 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 Jan van Scorelbuurt 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.