neighbourhood in Wijdemeren
Splegelpolder
2,105 residents · postal code 1394 · Part of Nederhorst den Berg, Wijdemeren
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Almost half of Splegelpolder's surface is water, against half a per cent nationally. Water is one of the five components of the quiet & nature pillar and counts as heavily there as greenery or noise; together with the low building density that explains an 8.3 most neighbourhoods never approach.
The wealth & income pillar comes out at 7.2, and that figure is less uniform than it looks. Property values are well above the median and there are more households on a high income than usual, but the social assistance rate runs at nearly twice the national level. Two movements at once, in the same place.
The GP is four hundred metres away, the supermarket nearly two kilometres and the station nine. That uneven pattern holds amenities at 6.1.
- no. 1,031 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 17 in Wijdemeren
How Splegelpolder scores
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Is Splegelpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Splegelpolder comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Splegelpolder 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, 46 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
Splegelpolder has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
933 — far less 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 Splegelpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Splegelpolder comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Splegelpolder 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 Splegelpolder?
In Splegelpolder the police recorded 46 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 Splegelpolder calculated?
Splegelpolder scores 9.4 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 Splegelpolder 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Wijdemeren.
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