neighbourhood in Rotterdam

Zestienhoven

4,800 residents · postal code 3045 · Part of Overschie, Rotterdam

Top 47% in the Netherlands

Well-off, but not carefree

Zestienhoven combines a 9.7 for wealth & income with a 3.3 for safety. The first is unambiguous: the property value lies at almost double the Dutch middle, high incomes occur far more often than average and social assistance barely at all. The second is unambiguous too, but the other way — each of the recorded crime categories lies above the national median.

The second story is distance. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all more than two kilometres away, and a 4.8 for amenities is what remains of it. That families nonetheless comes out at a 7.5 is to the credit of the population: two in three households here have children, far more than is usual nationally, and that largely compensates for the school distance.

Also striking is the noise, which lies far above the average while few people live per square kilometre.

no. 6,076 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 9 of 81 in Rotterdam

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Is Zestienhoven 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

37.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

14.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 274 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

2.1 km

GP practice

2.3 km

Train station

3.3 km

Restaurant

1.8 km

Hospital

2.6 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

3.0 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

€ 779,000

Welfare recipients

4.2 per 1,000

High incomes

51%

Low incomes

22%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

82%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

88%

Built after 2000

80%

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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

862 inw/km²

Noise level

60 dB

Green surroundings

59%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

952

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.5 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

2.1 km

Households with children

67%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

2.2 km

Residents under 15

33%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Zestienhoven has strikingly many children under 15: 33%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1533%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
3.2 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
67% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
862 — 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 Zestienhoven a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Zestienhoven comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zestienhoven 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 Zestienhoven?

In Zestienhoven the police recorded 274 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Zestienhoven calculated?

Zestienhoven scores 6.5 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 Zestienhoven 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.