neighbourhood in Sluis

IJzendijke

1,865 residents · postal code 4515 · Part of IJzendijke, Sluis

Top 13% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

The number of recorded offences in IJzendijke is less than half the national middle, and that holds for all four types separately: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism. A 9.6 for safety without a single weak spot is exceptional.

More interesting is the 4.3 for wealth & income, because it does not match the incomes. The share of households on a high income is slightly above the national median here, the share on a low income below it, and the rate of social assistance is lower than average. What drags the pillar down is the housing: property values lag far behind and one in ten homes stands empty. That is the picture of a village where residents are doing reasonably well but the property yields little.

For families the location works out well. The primary school is three hundred metres away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar. Shop and GP are just as close; the station is tens of kilometres off.

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Is IJzendijke a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, IJzendijke comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: IJzendijke is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

11.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

3.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 20 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

39.2 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

11.5 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.4 km

Motorway ramp

0.8 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 281,000

Welfare recipients

5.4 per 1,000

High incomes

20%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

10%

Owner-occupied

74%

Social housing

14%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

89%

Built after 2000

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

2,323 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

72%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

381

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.5 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.3 km

Households with children

28%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

11.1 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of IJzendijke looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+27%
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
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,323 — around the 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 IJzendijke a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in IJzendijke?

In IJzendijke the police recorded 20 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 IJzendijke calculated?

IJzendijke scores 9.1 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 IJzendijke 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.