neighbourhood in Papendrecht
Schildersbuurt
2,740 residents · postal code 3351 · Part of Westpolder, Papendrecht
Everything for children close by, and little room
Rarely do both halves of the families pillar pull as much in the same direction as in Schildersbuurt. The primary school is six hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children; distance and age profile both push upwards, and that is where the 9.4 comes from.
On safety the picture is mixed. Burglary barely occurs here and violence sits at the national level, but both property crime and vandalism are above it. Because the two heaviest components come out favourably, the score stays above the national middle.
The wealth & income pillar stops at a 5.0, and that is not a weak picture on every front. Incomes follow the national pattern almost exactly and vacancy is minimal; it is property value, below the median, and a social assistance rate at more than double that drag the score down. The railway station is five kilometres away, well beyond walking distance.
- no. 5,892 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 23 in Papendrecht
How Schildersbuurt scores
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Is Schildersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt 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.
In 2025, 111 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
Schildersbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,766 — 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 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 Schildersbuurt?
In Schildersbuurt the police recorded 111 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 Schildersbuurt calculated?
Schildersbuurt scores 6.6 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 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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