neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Delfshaven
7,215 residents · postal code 3024 · Part of Delfshaven, Rotterdam
Everything close by, little space
Burglary hardly occurs in Delfshaven: the figure lies at a third of the national median. Violence, by contrast, rises well over three times above it, and violence is the most heavily weighted item in the whole safety pillar. Anyone here mainly watching their front door is watching the wrong thing.
Six in ten households consist of one person, and yet there is a 7.1 for families. That score is here almost entirely distance, with a primary school nearby, and says nothing about how many children live there.
Wealth drops to a 2.9, with a social assistance rate that exceeds the national level eightfold and a property value that stays far below it.
- no. 11,609 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 63 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Delfshaven scores
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Is Delfshaven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Delfshaven comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Delfshaven 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, 484 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
Delfshaven has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 21%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2521%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,846 — 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 Delfshaven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Delfshaven comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Delfshaven 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 Delfshaven?
In Delfshaven the police recorded 484 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Delfshaven calculated?
Delfshaven scores 3.3 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 Delfshaven 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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