neighbourhood in Waddinxveen
Oostpolderwijk
2,260 residents · postal code 2741 · Part of Wijk 04, Waddinxveen
Everything for children close by, and little room
The offence rate in Oostpolderwijk sits well below the national middle, but burglary is the exception: it occurs here five times as often as in the average neighbourhood. Violence, property crime and vandalism all lie beneath it. That the safety pillar still stops at a 7.4 has everything to do with this.
The 8.0 for families does not come from school distance — the nearest primary school is more than a kilometre away — but from who lives here: more than two fifths of households have children, well above the national figure.
The real outlier downwards is quiet & nature, a 3.1. With more than nine thousand residents per square kilometre this is densely built ground, greenery within three hundred metres does not exceed a third, and the tree canopy is thinner than half of what is usual nationally. Anyone looking for space here has to find it outside the neighbourhood.
- no. 4,031 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 20 in Waddinxveen
How Oostpolderwijk scores
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Is Oostpolderwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostpolderwijk comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oostpolderwijk 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, 41 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
Oostpolderwijk has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,072 — 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 Oostpolderwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostpolderwijk comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oostpolderwijk 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 Oostpolderwijk?
In Oostpolderwijk the police recorded 41 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Oostpolderwijk calculated?
Oostpolderwijk scores 7.7 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 Oostpolderwijk 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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