neighbourhood in Meppel
Schildersbuurt
2,350 residents · postal code 7944 · Part of Koedijkslanden, Meppel
Safe, but not spacious
Every home in the Schildersbuurt is a single-family house and more than eight in ten are owner-occupied, and yet the wealth & income pillar gets no further than 4.6. Those two components together weigh a tenth of it; it is the property value below the median and a social assistance rate more than one and a half times the national level that make the score. The income distribution itself barely differs from the country.
Among offences, burglary is more than twice the national value while violence, property crime and criminal damage all stay below it. For residents the 7.4 for safety therefore mainly means something for the lock on the door.
Quiet & nature stalls at 4.0 even though the noise level is more than two decibels Lden below the median. There is no water, the share of green does not reach two-thirds of the national middle, and more than five thousand people live per square kilometre.
- no. 7,387 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 36 in Meppel
How Schildersbuurt scores
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Is Schildersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schildersbuurt 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, 35 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 Schildersbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
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
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,389 — 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 Schildersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schildersbuurt 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 Schildersbuurt?
In Schildersbuurt the police recorded 35 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 Schildersbuurt calculated?
Schildersbuurt scores 5.8 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 Schildersbuurt 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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