neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Rooswijk

2,505 residents · postal code 1544 · Part of Rooswijk, Zaanstad

Bottom 8% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

For Rooswijk the amenities score is missing, so the overall 3.1 rests on four pillars instead of five. The income data are missing too; Statistics Netherlands does not publish them where there are too few households to report on reliably.

What is there is stark. Violence is recorded almost four times as often as nationally and vandalism more than three times; those are two of the heaviest-weighted components of the safety pillar, and that is where the 2.7 comes from. The social assistance rate is above fifty per thousand residents. Against that stands a 9.7 for families: more than four in ten households have children and the share of children is above the national middle.

no. 12,067 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 62 of 72 in Zaanstad

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Amenities

no grade

Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.

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Is Rooswijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Rooswijk comes out at 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rooswijk is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

62.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

9.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

14.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

7.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 208 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

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.

Property value

€ 356,000

Welfare recipients

51.9 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

38%

Social housing

61%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

61%

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

6,240 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,437

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.4 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.

Households with children

42%

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Rooswijk has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,240 — 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 Rooswijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Rooswijk comes out at 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rooswijk 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 Rooswijk?

In Rooswijk the police recorded 208 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (62 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 Rooswijk calculated?

Rooswijk scores 3.1 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 Rooswijk 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.