neighbourhood in Súdwest-Fryslân
Sneek binnen de grachten
1,290 residents · postal code 8601 · Part of Sneek, Súdwest-Fryslân
Everything close by, safety lags
A 10.0 for amenities and a 2.5 for safety: Sneek binnen de grachten is the textbook case of an old inner city. Everything is within walking distance, and that goes for the problems too.
The number of reported offences is more than three times the national middle, but unlike many busy centres this is not only about belongings: violent offences run at more than six times the median. Violence weighs heaviest in the safety pillar, and it marks the difference between a centre where bicycles disappear and a centre where the evenings can genuinely be uneasy.
Vacancy stands out: nearly one address in six is empty, against roughly one in twenty-five nationally. Within the canals, where the housing is mostly small rented flats and a large majority live alone, that is no detail — together with a property value far below the median it is why wealth & income sticks at 2.6.
- no. 12,154 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 123 of 141 in Súdwest-Fryslân
How Sneek binnen de grachten scores
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Is Sneek binnen de grachten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sneek binnen de grachten comes out at 78 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sneek binnen de grachten 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, 254 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
Sneek binnen de grachten has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4533%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
63% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,860 — 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 Sneek binnen de grachten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sneek binnen de grachten comes out at 78 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sneek binnen de grachten 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 Sneek binnen de grachten?
In Sneek binnen de grachten the police recorded 254 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (78 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 Sneek binnen de grachten calculated?
Sneek binnen de grachten scores 3.0 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 Sneek binnen de grachten 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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