neighbourhood in Leeuwarden

Schieringen

1,905 residents · postal code 8924 · Part of Heechterp & Schieringen, Leeuwarden

Bottom 7% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Just over two thousand residents per square kilometre is not much for an urban neighbourhood, and together with a fair amount of greenery around that gives Schieringen a 5.6 for quiet & nature — the neighbourhood's highest score.

On families, distance is decisive: the primary school is a kilometre away, and because distance counts heavily in that pillar the score stays at 6.5. Safety comes out at 2.7, with violence recorded more than twice as often as nationally and theft well above the median too. Wealth & income stays low as well: a rate of social assistance many times the national median, few households on a high income, and only vacancy exactly on the median.

no. 12,277 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 81 of 111 in Leeuwarden

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Is Schieringen 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

48.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.5 per 1,000

Property crime

18.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 123 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

2.6 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.9 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

2.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.9 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

€ 181,000

Welfare recipients

131.2 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

57%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

24%

Social housing

56%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

27%

Built after 2000

16%

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

2,247 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,317

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

1.0 km

Households with children

22%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.3 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schieringen has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+11%
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
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,247 — around the 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 Schieringen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schieringen comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schieringen 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 Schieringen?

In Schieringen the police recorded 123 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 Schieringen calculated?

Schieringen 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 Schieringen 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.