neighbourhood in Schouwen-Duiveland
Nieuwerkerk
2,405 residents · postal code 4306 · Part of Nieuwerkerk, Schouwen-Duiveland
Safe, but not spacious
The railway station is twenty-five kilometres away, and yet Nieuwerkerk scores a 6.1 for amenities. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within a kilometre, and those three together carry more weight than the railway. Anyone living here without a car notices the difference only on the first trip off the island.
The 9.8 for safety is one of the highest in the country and rests on all offence types at once: not one rises above the national median, and property crime stays far below it.
The 4.1 for quiet & nature is surprising in a village of this size. That pillar does not measure the absence of bustle but greenery, tree canopy, noise and water in the immediate surroundings, and on most of those Nieuwerkerk is around or below the national median. Living rurally is not the same here as living green.
- no. 2,208 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 49 in Schouwen-Duiveland
How Nieuwerkerk scores
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Is Nieuwerkerk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuwerkerk comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nieuwerkerk 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, 30 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
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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
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Who lives here
Nieuwerkerk has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,293 — 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 Nieuwerkerk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuwerkerk comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nieuwerkerk 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 Nieuwerkerk?
In Nieuwerkerk the police recorded 30 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Nieuwerkerk calculated?
Nieuwerkerk scores 8.7 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 Nieuwerkerk 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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