neighbourhood in Rotterdam

Spangen

10,020 residents · postal code 3027 · Part of Delfshaven, Rotterdam

Bottom 26% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

A 9.8 for families is exceptionally high, and in Spangen that is easy to explain: the primary school is three hundred metres away and almost four in ten households have children. And that while virtually all the homes here are flats.

The safety figure of 3.0 comes from a different side than it suggests. Theft is only slightly above the national level; it is violence that stands out, at well over three times the usual number, and that weighs heaviest within that pillar. What makes the wealth figure of 2.7 is mainly the bottom end of the income distribution: half of households have a low income and the number of social assistance benefits runs into the dozens per thousand residents, against a few per thousand nationally.

no. 9,726 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 33 of 81 in Rotterdam

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Is Spangen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Spangen comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spangen 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.

Total crime

46.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

7.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

10.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 678 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

2.3 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

3.1 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 289,000

Welfare recipients

73.9 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

51%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

62%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

14%

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

16,640 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,967

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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

39%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Spangen has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 11%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,640 — 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 Spangen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Spangen comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spangen 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 Spangen?

In Spangen the police recorded 678 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Spangen calculated?

Spangen scores 4.4 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 Spangen 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.