neighbourhood in Rotterdam

Oude Noorden

17,250 residents · postal code 3035 · Part of Noord, Rotterdam

Bottom 17% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Het Oude Noorden has more than seventeen thousand residents on barely more than one square kilometre. That explains the 9.6 for amenities — a restaurant two hundred metres away, shop and school around the corner — and it also explains why the quiet pillar stays at a 3.5: not even a third of the surroundings is green and the traffic noise is well above the national median.

Wealth is the weakest point, and there everything points the same way. The social assistance figure is almost ten times above the national one, the property value stays far below it, the top income group is thin and there is more vacancy than usual.

At the same time there is an 8.3 for families, while only a quarter of all households here have children. That figure mainly measures the distance to education and childcare, and here it is short.

no. 10,859 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 47 of 81 in Rotterdam

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Is Oude Noorden 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

50.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

22.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 1,321 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

0.6 km

Train station

2.1 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.2 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 347,000

Welfare recipients

76.5 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

48%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

22%

Social housing

57%

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

17,094 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

30%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

7,519

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.5 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

26%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oude Noorden has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 37%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4537%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
17,094 — 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 Oude Noorden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oude Noorden comes out at 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oude Noorden 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 Oude Noorden?

In Oude Noorden the police recorded 1,321 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (51 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 Oude Noorden calculated?

Oude Noorden scores 3.8 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 Oude Noorden 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.