neighbourhood in Rotterdam

Nieuwe Westen

19,385 residents · postal code 3022 · Part of Delfshaven, Rotterdam

Bottom 21% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Everything is within walking distance and there is no space anywhere. Het Nieuwe Westen reaches a 9.6 for amenities — supermarket, GP and school within a few hundred metres — and a 2.7 for quiet, which puts the neighbourhood among the lowest in the country: no water, a third of the surroundings green, and traffic noise far above the national median.

On wealth the surprise lies in which component does it. The property value stays below the Dutch middle, but not spectacularly; it is the income side that causes the 3.7, with social assistance benefits almost nine times above the national figure per thousand residents and half of the households in the lowest income group. That is unusual, because in that pillar the property value weighs heaviest.

There are relatively few children, but the families score stands at a 8.9 — school and childcare simply happen to be close by here.

no. 10,391 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 42 of 81 in Rotterdam

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Is Nieuwe Westen 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

41.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

14.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 1,222 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.4 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

2.4 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

€ 378,000

Welfare recipients

70.7 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

49%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

48%

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

15,656 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

6,876

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.3 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

0.4 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Nieuwe Westen has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2516%
NL median 11%
25–4535%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+12%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,656 — 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 Westen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Nieuwe Westen comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nieuwe Westen 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 Westen?

In Nieuwe Westen the police recorded 1,222 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 Westen calculated?

Nieuwe Westen scores 4.0 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 Westen 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.