neighbourhood in Uithoorn

Meerwijk

5,535 residents · postal code 1423 · Part of Meerwijk, Uithoorn

Top 22% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

Meerwijk is in good shape on almost every front, with a 8.7 for safety and a 8.1 for wealth, and it slips on one point: amenities gets no further than a 5.2. The GP is two kilometres away and the railway station over twelve, and those are precisely two of the most heavily weighted components of that pillar. Groceries can be done within a kilometre.

The wealth side is unusually unambiguous. The property value lies above the national middle, the top income group is broader than usual and the bottom one narrower, and there is hardly any vacancy; only the social assistance density stays close to the national level rather than below it. With crime the same holds in the other direction: none of the four registered types reaches the national level.

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no. 2 of 11 in Uithoorn

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Is Meerwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Meerwijk comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meerwijk 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.

Total crime

13.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

3.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 91 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

0.9 km

GP practice

2.0 km

Train station

12.3 km

Restaurant

1.0 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

1.5 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.3 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

€ 486,000

Welfare recipients

9.0 per 1,000

High incomes

27%

Low incomes

32%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

74%

Social housing

21%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

80%

Built after 2000

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

5,902 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

52%

Trees nearby

Water share

11%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,226

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 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

0.9 km

Households with children

40%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

2.1 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6534%
NL median 28%
65+21%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,902 — 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 Meerwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Meerwijk comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meerwijk 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 Meerwijk?

In Meerwijk the police recorded 91 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Meerwijk calculated?

Meerwijk scores 8.4 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 Meerwijk 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.