neighbourhood in Rotterdam
CS-Kwartier
3,040 residents · postal code 3013 · Part of Rotterdam Centrum, Rotterdam
Everything close by, little space
The number of recorded offences in Cs Kwartier is nearly ten times the national median, and that says less about the three thousand-odd residents than it seems: offences are counted where the act took place, not where the victim lives.
Theft accounts for the largest part, but violence too is recorded almost nine times as often here as nationally. So this is not a story about pickpocketing alone.
Wealth & income shows something different: many high-income households live here and few low-income ones, while at the same time the number of social assistance claims is a multiple of the median — a 5.9 describing two groups side by side. Quiet is scarce: at sixty-five decibels Lden the noise level is a good thirteen above the national median.
- no. 9,401 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 29 of 81 in Rotterdam
How CS-Kwartier scores
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Is CS-Kwartier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, CS-Kwartier comes out at 229 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: CS-Kwartier 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, 1,433 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
CS-Kwartier has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 53%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4553%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+5%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,449 — 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 CS-Kwartier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, CS-Kwartier comes out at 229 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: CS-Kwartier 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 CS-Kwartier?
In CS-Kwartier the police recorded 1,433 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (229 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 CS-Kwartier calculated?
CS-Kwartier scores 4.6 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 CS-Kwartier 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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