neighbourhood in Steenwijkerland
Steenwijk West
2,795 residents · postal code 8331 · Part of Steenwijk, Steenwijkerland
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Steenwijk West has close to the lowest wealth score in the country: a 2.5, and every component contributes. Property value is half the national middle, more than half of households fall in the lowest income group, high incomes are all but absent, vacancy is double the national rate and the social assistance rate is more than ten times the Dutch median. There is no single figure dragging this pillar down.
Safety follows the same track: violence, burglary and vandalism all sit above the national middle and only theft stays just below it. The 3.1 is therefore not the outlier of one type.
And then there is a 9.0 for families, which is stranger than it looks. That pillar consists for almost two thirds of school and childcare distance, and the primary school here is four hundred metres away. Schooling is within easy reach in a neighbourhood where the rest of the figures run heavily against it.
- no. 11,544 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 71 of 78 in Steenwijkerland
How Steenwijk West scores
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Is Steenwijk West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Steenwijk West comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Steenwijk West 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, 153 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
Steenwijk West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,737 — 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 Steenwijk West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Steenwijk West comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Steenwijk West 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 Steenwijk West?
In Steenwijk West the police recorded 153 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 Steenwijk West calculated?
Steenwijk West scores 3.4 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 Steenwijk West 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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