neighbourhood in Schiedam
Kastelenbuurt
2,090 residents · postal code 3123 · Part of Woudhoek, Schiedam
Everything for children close by, and little room
Fewer offences are recorded in Kastelenbuurt than in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and still the safety pillar stops at 5.4. Burglary is the reason: it runs more than three times the national median here, and burglary weighs heavily in that figure. Property crime, usually the largest category, stays well below the middle.
The 5.5 for wealth & income is not a verdict on what residents earn. The income distribution barely differs from the country — the top group is even slightly wider than the national figure — and vacancy is almost absent. What pulls the score down is property value, which stays well below the national median.
That quiet & nature lands on 4.7 comes down to how densely it is built: more than ten thousand residents per square kilometre, less tree canopy than usual and more ambient noise than the median.
- no. 8,219 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 32 of 60 in Schiedam
How Kastelenbuurt scores
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Is Kastelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastelenbuurt comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 47 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
Kastelenbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,722 — 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 Kastelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastelenbuurt comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Kastelenbuurt?
In Kastelenbuurt the police recorded 47 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Kastelenbuurt calculated?
Kastelenbuurt scores 5.3 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 Kastelenbuurt 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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