neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Charlois Zuidrand
630 residents · postal code 3084 · Part of Charlois, Rotterdam
Charlois Zuidrand, on the southern edge of Rotterdam-Charlois, has 630 residents spread across a sparsely built area of 321 per square kilometre. Safety is the biggest issue: a 2.6 places it among the least safe one percent of the Netherlands, with a crime rate more than six times the national median. Wealth & income, by contrast, scores above average at 7.5, and homes at €616k are considerably pricier than the national median. The train station is nearly six kilometres away, the supermarket just over one.
- no. 11,330 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 54 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Charlois Zuidrand scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 283 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
Charlois Zuidrand has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
321 — far less 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
How is the grade for Charlois Zuidrand calculated?
Charlois Zuidrand scores 3.5 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh four equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income and quiet & nature — and see where Charlois Zuidrand lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the four grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
Is Charlois Zuidrand a safe neighbourhood?
Charlois Zuidrand scores 2.6 on safety, based on registered crimes per 1,000 people present (152.7 per year). The national median is around 24.1.
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