neighbourhood in Rotterdam
Struisenburg
5,970 residents · postal code 3063 · Part of Kralingen-Crooswijk, Rotterdam
Everything close by, little space
In three of every four Struisenburg households one person lives, and the share of residents under fifteen is a fraction of what is usual nationally. That accounts for the families score of 4.1: the primary school is a kilometre away, but it is the population make-up that drags this score down.
More striking is the quiet pillar. A good third of the surface area of this Rotterdam neighbourhood consists of water, and water is one of its five components — yet it sticks at a 3.4, because density, noise and the scarce greenery fill the rest. The number of registered offences is almost twice as high as in the average Dutch neighbourhood. Property crime is by far the largest item, but violence too is above the national middle — so this is not merely a matter of theft.
- no. 11,595 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 62 of 81 in Rotterdam
How Struisenburg scores
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Is Struisenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Struisenburg comes out at 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Struisenburg 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, 419 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
Struisenburg has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 36%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–154%
NL median 14%
- 15–2536%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6512%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
76% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
6% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,400 — 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 Struisenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Struisenburg comes out at 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Struisenburg 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 Struisenburg?
In Struisenburg the police recorded 419 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (48 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 Struisenburg calculated?
Struisenburg scores 3.3 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 Struisenburg 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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