neighbourhood in Nieuwegein

Schansen

3,175 residents · postal code 3432 · Part of Fokkesteeg, Nieuwegein

Bottom 43% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

Schansen scores high on everything to do with reach and low on everything to do with money and crime. The primary school is four hundred metres away and supermarket and GP are just as close; that explains the 8.9 for families without any particular abundance of children.

The 3.8 for safety comes from two directions at once. Property crime here sits well above the national middle, but so does violence, and violence weighs the most in this pillar. The familiar picture of an area where only bicycles disappear does not fit.

On wealth & income the outcome is more mixed than the 4.0 suggests: the share of low incomes lies below the national middle. What costs the pillar is a property value under the median and a rate of social assistance more than three times the national level. Quiet & nature holds its ground on a tree canopy well above average.

no. 7,529 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 21 of 34 in Nieuwegein

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Is Schansen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schansen comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

32.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

15.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 131 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

8.6 km

Restaurant

1.3 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

1.8 km

Library

2.1 km

Motorway ramp

2.1 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

€ 331,000

Welfare recipients

25.2 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

51%

Social housing

37%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

52%

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

7,831 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

15%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,683

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.4 km

Households with children

34%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schansen has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+16%
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
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,831 — 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 Schansen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schansen comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Schansen?

In Schansen the police recorded 131 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (32 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 Schansen calculated?

Schansen scores 5.7 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 Schansen 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.