neighbourhood in Nieuwkoop
Schoterveld
2,360 residents · postal code 2441 · Part of Kern Nieuwveen, Nieuwkoop
Everything for children close by, and little room
The overall score for Schoterveld rests on four pillars instead of five: there is no score for amenities and all distances are missing. A 9.6 without that component therefore says something different from a 9.6 with it — nothing can be said here about access to shops, a GP or a station.
The income distribution and vacancy are missing too; the CBS does not publish those where there are too few households. What is there: a property value above the national median and a social assistance rate more than one and a half times the middle. On those two alone the wealth & income pillar comes out at 5.7.
The 9.8 for families comes here from the population and not from distance, because that is absent: more than four in ten households have children and a fifth of residents are under fifteen. The share of green is almost ten points above the national level.
- no. 743 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 28 in Nieuwkoop
How Schoterveld scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Schoterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schoterveld comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schoterveld 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, 38 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Nieuwkoop →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Nieuwkoop →
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
Schoterveld has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,438 — 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 Schoterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schoterveld comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schoterveld 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 Schoterveld?
In Schoterveld the police recorded 38 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 Schoterveld calculated?
Schoterveld scores 9.6 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 Schoterveld 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 lowest-scoring neighbourhoods of Nieuwkoop
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Nieuwkoop.
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