neighbourhood in Súdwest-Fryslân
Bolsward-Zuidwest
390 residents · postal code 8701 · Part of Bolsward, Súdwest-Fryslân
Safe streets, thinner wallets
With four hundred residents and a low building density, Bolsward-Zuidwest ought to be a quiet place, but the quiet & nature score sticks at 5.4. The cause lies in a single measurement: traffic noise here is nine decibels above the national median, which amounts to many times the sound energy. Greenery and water sit around the national picture and do not offset it.
The wealth & income pillar cannot be captured in one word. Not a single social assistance benefit is recorded and the top income group is thin, while the property value stays below the national median and vacancy sits slightly above it. There are no outliers upwards, and no hard bottom edge either.
The 4.6 for families fits the population: nine per cent are under fifteen and the primary school is just within a kilometre. The low figure here is about who lives there, not about what is missing.
- no. 8,915 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 71 of 141 in Súdwest-Fryslân
How Bolsward-Zuidwest scores
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Is Bolsward-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bolsward-Zuidwest comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 9 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
Bolsward-Zuidwest has strikingly few children under 15: 9%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,588 — far less 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 Bolsward-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bolsward-Zuidwest comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bolsward-Zuidwest?
In Bolsward-Zuidwest the police recorded 9 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Bolsward-Zuidwest calculated?
Bolsward-Zuidwest scores 4.9 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 Bolsward-Zuidwest 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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