neighbourhood in Waalwijk
Meerdijk
3,055 residents · postal code 5143 · Part of Waalwijk, Waalwijk
Well-off, and well out of town
Meerdijk is among the highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the country, and that with the nearest station almost fifteen kilometres away. That is where the weakest pillar lies: amenities. A supermarket, a GP and a restaurant are all within a kilometre; the train is not.
What lifts the overall score is wealth & income. Property values are well above the national median, the share of high incomes is larger than nationally and less social assistance is paid out than average. Only the share of low incomes barely differs from the rest of the country, so prosperous across the board it is not.
It is also quiet: noise levels are appreciably below the national median and the tree canopy is more than twice as thick. Almost a third of residents are over 65; that the families pillar still comes out at a 7.7 is mainly because the primary school is around the corner.
- no. 1,684 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 20 in Waalwijk
How Meerdijk scores
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Is Meerdijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meerdijk comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 80 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
Meerdijk has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4515%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,231 — 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 Meerdijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meerdijk comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Meerdijk?
In Meerdijk the police recorded 80 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Meerdijk calculated?
Meerdijk scores 9.0 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 Meerdijk 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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