neighbourhood in Ridderkerk

Centrum

4,830 residents · postal code 2982 · Part of Centrum, Ridderkerk

Bottom 33% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

A 9.4 for families in a neighbourhood where barely a third of households have children: Centrum in Ridderkerk shows nicely how that pillar works. It mainly measures how far away school and childcare are, and the primary school here is four hundred metres away. Where the childcare and the secondary school are is not in the table, while those distances count too.

Beyond that this is a neighbourhood with two heavy drawbacks. The 3.3 for wealth has not a single bright spot: the property value lies well below the Dutch middle, the share on social assistance is more than four times the median and more stands empty than is usual nationally. The same 3.3 for quiet & nature comes from density and noise, both on the unfavourable side, in a neighbourhood where seven in ten homes are flats.

no. 8,820 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 8 of 10 in Ridderkerk

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 33 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

33.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

14.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 231 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

5.3 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.0 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 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

€ 288,000

Welfare recipients

33.1 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

47%

Social housing

47%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

30%

Built after 2000

23%

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

5,694 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

43%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,366

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

32%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,694 — 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 Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 33 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 Centrum?

In Centrum the police recorded 231 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (33 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 Centrum calculated?

Centrum scores 4.9 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 Centrum 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.