neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Spaanse Polder
65 residents · postal code 3044 · Part of Spaanse Polder, Rotterdam
Everything close by, safety lags
With sixty-five residents spread over an area that elsewhere would hold half a city district, Spaanse Polder is a statistical outlier. That explains the crime figure: reported offences are counted per thousand residents, and here the denominator is tiny. Almost everything recorded is a property offence; violence is only slightly above the national median and burglary below it. The 3.4 for safety therefore says more about how few people live here than about what it is like to walk the streets.
The wealth & income pillar rests on less information than usual. Statistics Netherlands does not publish incomes and social assistance where there are too few households, so mainly the property value, which is above the national median, and the vacancy rate remain. That vacancy is the most striking figure here: four in ten addresses are empty, ten times the national picture. A 5.8 for wealth & income is what comes out of two figures pointing in exactly opposite directions.
- no. 11,378 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 57 of 81 in Rotterdam
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Spaanse Polder scores
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Is Spaanse Polder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spaanse Polder comes out at 145 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spaanse Polder 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, 520 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
Spaanse Polder has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
38 — far less 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 Spaanse Polder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spaanse Polder comes out at 145 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spaanse Polder 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 Spaanse Polder?
In Spaanse Polder the police recorded 520 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (145 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 Spaanse Polder calculated?
Spaanse Polder scores 3.5 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 Spaanse Polder 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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