neighbourhood in Uithoorn
Meerwijk
3,780 residents · postal code 1424 · Part of De Kwakel, Uithoorn
Safe, but not spacious
Meerwijk's 9.2 for safety comes from low figures across the board: violence, property crime and vandalism all sit below the national median, and burglary sits exactly on it.
Amenities score considerably weaker at 5.1, and daily shopping is not the reason — the supermarket is round the corner. It is the GP, the restaurant and above all the railway station, which is eleven kilometres away. In this pillar distance counts, and nothing else.
The 8.4 for families comes from a different direction: the primary school is nearby and four in ten households have children. Those two components cover most of that pillar between them, and here they both point the same way. For anyone living in De Kwakel with children, the school is closer than the GP.
- no. 3,164 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 11 in Uithoorn
How Meerwijk scores
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Is Meerwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meerwijk comes out at 12 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.
In 2025, 52 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
The age profile of Meerwijk looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,258 — 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 Meerwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meerwijk comes out at 12 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 52 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 Meerwijk calculated?
Meerwijk scores 8.2 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.
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