neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Nieuwe Werk
3,240 residents · postal code 3016 · Part of Rotterdam Centrum, Rotterdam
Everything close by, except school and childcare
Nieuwe Werk shows that a high wealth score does not mean every component adds up. Property value and the share of high incomes are far above the national middle and social assistance far below it, but vacancy runs at four times the national median. In a neighbourhood where a third of the surface is water, that is a striking figure.
The 3.6 for families is the lowest pillar, and it is doubly anchored. The primary school is a good kilometre away, and school distance is almost two thirds of that score; on top of that, one in ten households here has children. Both components point the same way.
Recorded offences lie well above the national middle, and that comes almost entirely from property crime — more than double the median — while burglary stays far below it.
- no. 5,720 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Nieuwe Werk scores
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Is Nieuwe Werk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuwe Werk comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nieuwe Werk 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, 339 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
Nieuwe Werk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 21%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–156%
NL median 14%
- 15–2521%
NL median 11%
- 25–4539%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
58% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,707 — 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 Nieuwe Werk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuwe Werk comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nieuwe Werk 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 Nieuwe Werk?
In Nieuwe Werk the police recorded 339 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Nieuwe Werk calculated?
Nieuwe Werk scores 6.7 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 Nieuwe Werk 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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