neighbourhood in Rotterdam

Nieuw Mathenesse

2,915 residents · postal code 3029 · Part of Nieuw Mathenesse, Rotterdam

Bottom 5% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Nieuw Mathenesse has not a single resident over sixty-five and hardly any children, no owner-occupied homes and no single-family houses. Four in ten square metres of the area are water. This is a place whose figures diverge from the rest of the country on almost every point.

The crime figure is one of them: property offences run at about five times the national median and violence at almost five. Domestic burglary, by contrast, sits near the national level, which fits a housing stock that is entirely rented.

Wealth & income comes out at a 5.3, and that is not an average picture but a collision. The share of higher incomes is well above the national one, that of lower incomes far below, and the social assistance rate stands at zero — but property values stay well under the national median and vacancy is at double.

no. 12,465 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 78 of 81 in Rotterdam

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Is Nieuw Mathenesse 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

88.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

11.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

50.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 445 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

1.1 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

2.6 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

3.6 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 250,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

34%

Low incomes

17%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

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

2,370 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

14%

Trees nearby

Water share

41%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,599

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

1.3 km

Households with children

Childcare

1.3 km

Secondary school

2.0 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Nieuw Mathenesse has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 65%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–2518%
NL median 11%
25–4565%
NL median 22%
45–659%
NL median 28%
65+0%
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
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,370 — around the 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 Nieuw Mathenesse a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Nieuw Mathenesse comes out at 88 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nieuw Mathenesse 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 Nieuw Mathenesse?

In Nieuw Mathenesse the police recorded 445 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (88 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 Nieuw Mathenesse calculated?

Nieuw Mathenesse scores 2.8 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 Nieuw Mathenesse 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.