neighbourhood in Rotterdam

Oud Crooswijk

8,070 residents · postal code 3034 · Part of Kralingen-Crooswijk, Rotterdam

Bottom 25% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The families pillar measures walking distances and the share of households with children, and on both Oud Crooswijk is well placed: the primary school is three hundred metres away, and that yields a 9.5. About what happens on the street that score says nothing.

And on the street there is something going on. Violence and vandalism both lie at almost three times the Dutch median, and theft and burglary also lie above the median; none of the four types turns out well, which explains the 2.7 for safety. The wealth side is just as unambiguous: the share of social assistance recipients lies many times above the national one, more than half of the households sit in the lowest income group and hardly a home is owner-occupied. Amenities, by contrast, yield almost the maximum.

no. 9,925 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 36 of 81 in Rotterdam

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Is Oud Crooswijk 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

48.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.4 per 1,000

Property crime

16.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 546 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

0.4 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.8 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 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

€ 298,000

Welfare recipients

102.9 per 1,000

High incomes

10%

Low incomes

57%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

Social housing

77%

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

16,519 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

35%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

6,726

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.6 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

0.3 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oud Crooswijk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+16%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,519 — 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 Oud Crooswijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oud Crooswijk comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oud Crooswijk 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 Oud Crooswijk?

In Oud Crooswijk the police recorded 546 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 Oud Crooswijk calculated?

Oud Crooswijk scores 4.3 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 Oud Crooswijk 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.