neighbourhood in Schiedam
De Velden
1,870 residents · postal code 3124 · Part of Spaland en Sveaparken, Schiedam
Safe, but not spacious
A 9.7 for safety in De Velden is not the work of one favourable figure: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism are all four below the national median, and burglary is all but absent. Neighbourhoods where the four types stay below the median at once are a minority.
What tempers the picture is access. The primary school and the supermarket are close, but the GP is one and a half kilometres away and the railway station more than four; that is where the amenities pillar stalls at 6.0.
The wealth & income pillar here comes mainly from incomes. The property value is just below the national median, while the share of high incomes is clearly above it and the share of low incomes below. Social assistance is rare. The overall score is not an average of what you read above, but set the five pillars side by side and none of them is a weak spot.
- no. 1,441 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 60 in Schiedam
How De Velden scores
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Is De Velden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Velden comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Velden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 31 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
De Velden has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 14%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6536%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,250 — 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 De Velden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Velden comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Velden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Velden?
In De Velden the police recorded 31 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 De Velden calculated?
De Velden scores 9.2 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 De Velden 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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