neighbourhood in Vlaardingen

Vaart Zuid

1,775 residents · postal code 3136 · Part of Holy Zuid, Vlaardingen

Bottom 28% in the Netherlands

Spacious, but safety lags

Almost half the residents of Vaart Zuid are 65 or over. That is the most pronounced figure in this neighbourhood, and it colours the rest: the share of children is well below the national picture, and with a primary school one and a half kilometres away the families score gets no further than 4.5. School distance is the heaviest component of that pillar, so there is little to offset it.

For this neighbourhood the property value is missing. The wealth & income pillar therefore rests on the remaining components, and they contradict each other: high incomes are more strongly represented than nationally and low incomes less so, but almost a fifth of addresses stand empty. The 5.6 sits between those two movements.

Quiet it certainly is, at 7.4, and that is the figure with the most meaning for anyone living here: more greenery and tree canopy than usual, and little bustle.

no. 9,447 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 19 of 31 in Vlaardingen

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Is Vaart Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

36.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

17.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 88 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

1.2 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

5.7 km

Restaurant

1.6 km

Hospital

3.3 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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.

Welfare recipients

11.3 per 1,000

High incomes

34%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

17%

Owner-occupied

43%

Social housing

34%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

33%

Built after 2000

46%

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

4,197 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

59%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,489

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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

1.5 km

Households with children

28%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vaart Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 46%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4511%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+46%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,197 — 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 Vaart Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vaart Zuid comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vaart Zuid 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 Vaart Zuid?

In Vaart Zuid the police recorded 88 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Vaart Zuid calculated?

Vaart Zuid scores 4.6 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 Vaart Zuid 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.