neighbourhood in Schiedam
Boylebuurt
1,230 residents · postal code 3112 · Part of Oost, Schiedam
Everything close by, little space
The Boylebuurt is one of the most densely populated pieces of the Netherlands: nearly twenty-eight thousand residents per square kilometre. Everything you need day to day is within six hundred metres, and that is where both the 9.5 for amenities and the 7.7 for families come from. The second figure is mostly about the short distance to school, not about large numbers of children, who by national standards are not numerous here.
The total number of reported offences is only slightly above the national median, and yet safety scores 3.2. One type explains it: violent offences are at roughly three times the national median, and violence is by far the heaviest component of that pillar. Burglary, theft and vandalism are above it too, but far less markedly.
What the neighbourhood lacks is space. Greenery nearby is far below the national level, and so is the tree canopy.
- no. 12,147 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 58 of 60 in Schiedam
How Boylebuurt scores
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Is Boylebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boylebuurt comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 51 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
Boylebuurt has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4533%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
27,986 — 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 Boylebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boylebuurt comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Boylebuurt?
In Boylebuurt the police recorded 51 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Boylebuurt calculated?
Boylebuurt scores 3.0 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 Boylebuurt 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Schiedam.
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