neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Provenierswijk
4,825 residents · postal code 3033 · Part of Noord, Rotterdam
Everything close by, little space
The Provenierswijk delivers a sharp contrast: a 9.3 for amenities beside an overall score of 2.9, which puts the neighbourhood in the bottom ten per cent of the Netherlands. Everything is reachable on foot there, and that is about the only thing.
On wealth there is a detail you do not see back in the score. Not only does the share of households on low incomes lie above the national level, so does that of the highest income group — the neighbourhood is more thickly populated at both ends than the average, with a middle group that is consequently narrower. What keeps the pillar at a 4.0 is the share on social assistance, which comes out many times above the median.
On safety all four recorded categories lie above the Dutch middle, burglary and theft even a multiple of it. That is not an accent, that is the whole breadth.
- no. 12,409 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 76 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Provenierswijk scores
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Is Provenierswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Provenierswijk comes out at 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Provenierswijk 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, 462 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
Provenierswijk has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 42%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,347 — 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 Provenierswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Provenierswijk comes out at 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Provenierswijk 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 Provenierswijk?
In Provenierswijk the police recorded 462 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (61 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 Provenierswijk calculated?
Provenierswijk scores 2.9 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 Provenierswijk 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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