neighbourhood in Schiedam
Nolensbuurt
2,005 residents · postal code 3119 · Part of Nieuwland, Schiedam
Everything for children close by, and little room
Over fourteen thousand residents per square kilometre: Nolensbuurt is one of the most densely built places in the Netherlands, and that density explains both extreme scores at once. Amenities stand at 9.9 because everything is within a few hundred metres, and quiet & nature at 2.7 because there is barely any greenery in between.
The safety score of 3.5 is not the profile of a shopping area where things go missing. Violence here is almost four times the national median, deviating further than the theft figure does, while burglaries are actually below the national median.
The 2.8 for wealth & income is the sharpest of the five. The rate of social assistance is nearly ten times the national median, more than half of households are on a low income and property values stay far below the median. For families, by contrast, the neighbourhood scores 10.0.
- no. 7,800 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 29 of 60 in Schiedam
How Nolensbuurt scores
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Is Nolensbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nolensbuurt comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nolensbuurt 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, 123 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
Nolensbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
47% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
14,589 — 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 Nolensbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nolensbuurt comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nolensbuurt 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 Nolensbuurt?
In Nolensbuurt the police recorded 123 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (45 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 Nolensbuurt calculated?
Nolensbuurt scores 5.5 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 Nolensbuurt 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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