neighbourhood in Nijmegen
Zwanenveld
4,720 residents · postal code 6538 · Part of Dukenburg, Nijmegen
Everything close by, safety lags
Zwanenveld sits with a 2.8 among the bottom five hundred neighbourhoods in the country, and the crime figure is the reason. Theft is at five times the national median and violence at more than twice it — both types point the same way, so this is not merely a matter of possessions disappearing.
The wealth pillar gives the same signal by another route. The property value lags far behind, the top income group is thin, and the social assistance rate is at almost nine times the national median. Only vacancy is below the middle; little stands empty here.
The 5.7 for quiet & nature is the friendliest figure, and it comes from space: a moderate building density and a good deal of tree canopy within three hundred metres. Crime does not count in that pillar, which explains how two such divergent figures can stand side by side.
- no. 12,612 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 39 of 40 in Nijmegen
How Zwanenveld scores
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Is Zwanenveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zwanenveld comes out at 77 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zwanenveld is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 501 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
Zwanenveld has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,653 — 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 Zwanenveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zwanenveld comes out at 77 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zwanenveld is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Zwanenveld?
In Zwanenveld the police recorded 501 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (77 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 Zwanenveld calculated?
Zwanenveld scores 2.8 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 Zwanenveld 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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