neighbourhood in Roosendaal

Scherpdeel

2,485 residents · postal code 4703 · Part of West, Roosendaal

Bottom 10% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Scherpdeel has one strong figure and the rest sit low. The 9.4 for amenities comes from short distances: supermarket, GP and primary school are all within six hundred metres. Safety, wealth & income and quiet & nature all score around 3, and those are connected.

The social assistance rate here is more than four times the Dutch average and the property value is well below the median; those are the two heaviest components of the wealth pillar. With safety it is not a matter of one type of offence: violence and vandalism are both well above the national middle, and so is theft. The picture of a place where only possessions go missing does not fit here. What remains is a 7.9 for families, carried by the short distance to the primary school, and that is a concrete advantage in a neighbourhood that lags behind on the other axes.

no. 11,808 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 41 of 53 in Roosendaal

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Is Scherpdeel a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

36.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.1 per 1,000

Property crime

18.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 114 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

0.5 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.1 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 260,000

Welfare recipients

36.2 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

59%

Social housing

26%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

63%

Built after 2000

11%

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

5,076 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,163

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.5 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

27%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.9 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Scherpdeel has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,076 — 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 Scherpdeel a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Scherpdeel comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Scherpdeel 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 Scherpdeel?

In Scherpdeel the police recorded 114 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Scherpdeel calculated?

Scherpdeel scores 3.2 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 Scherpdeel 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.