neighbourhood in Montferland
Zeddam
2,565 residents · postal code 7038 · Part of 's-Heerenberg, Montferland
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Zeddam has a 9.0 for safety and a 4.9 for families, and that second figure is surprising in a village where the primary school stands six hundred metres away. The explanation lies in the population structure: more than three in ten residents are over sixty-five and only a little over a tenth is under fifteen. Where distance is no obstacle, the age distribution does the work.
The wealth & income pillar stays at 4.6 because of the property value, which comes to around three quarters of the national median. The rate of social assistance, by contrast, sits neatly at the national level, so this is not a place with a pile-up of problems.
What carries the village is its setting. Greenery within three hundred metres is well above the median and the noise level below it, together good for a 7.1 for quiet & nature.
- no. 3,747 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 26 in Montferland
How Zeddam scores
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Is Zeddam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zeddam comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zeddam 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, 36 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
Zeddam has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,357 — 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 Zeddam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zeddam comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zeddam 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 Zeddam?
In Zeddam the police recorded 36 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Zeddam calculated?
Zeddam scores 7.9 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 Zeddam 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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