neighbourhood in Maasdriel
Rossum
2,165 residents · postal code 5328 · Part of Rossum, Maasdriel
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Almost a fifth of the surface of Rossum is water, more than thirty times the national share. That, and a noise level nearly six decibels below the national median, carry the 8.6 for quiet & nature; the tree canopy actually stays below the middle, so it is the space and the silence making the figure, not the trees.
The 8.8 for safety rests on little violence and little theft, both far below the national level. Burglary is well above it, which is a familiar pattern in a neighbourhood with fewer than two thousand people per square kilometre.
The weakest pillar is families at 6.3, and the primary school nine hundred metres away explains much of that; the share of households with children is around the national picture and a quarter of residents are sixty-five or older.
Wealth & income comes out just above the middle at 6.0: property value and incomes sit practically on the national ratio, only the social assistance rate runs well above it.
- no. 1,692 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 24 in Maasdriel
How Rossum scores
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Is Rossum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rossum comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Rossum 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, 28 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 Rossum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,902 — 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 Rossum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rossum comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Rossum 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 Rossum?
In Rossum the police recorded 28 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Rossum calculated?
Rossum scores 9.0 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 Rossum 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Maasdriel
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Maasdriel.
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