neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Kop van Zuid
2,745 residents · postal code 3072 · Part of Feijenoord, Rotterdam
Everything close by, little space
Kop van Zuid combines a 9.6 for amenities with a 2.8 for quiet and nature, and the two come from the same source: this is densely built urban land on the water. More than half the surface area is water, but within the quiet pillar that counts for as much as greenery, and greenery is almost nowhere to be found here. Noise levels, too, run well above the national middle.
The crime figures point two ways. Violence here is a multiple of the national median, while burglary barely occurs. Anyone judging this neighbourhood by burglary risk is looking at the most favourable figure available; anyone looking at what happens on the street, at the least favourable.
The low families score does not come from the school, which is within walking distance. It comes from who lives here: fewer than one in ten residents is under fifteen, and most households are single-person.
- no. 8,999 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 23 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Kop van Zuid scores
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Is Kop van Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kop van Zuid comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kop van Zuid 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, 423 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
Kop van Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 52%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4552%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,243 — 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 Kop van Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kop van Zuid comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kop van Zuid 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 Kop van Zuid?
In Kop van Zuid the police recorded 423 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (72 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 Kop van Zuid calculated?
Kop van Zuid scores 4.8 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 Kop van Zuid 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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