neighbourhood in Zevenaar

Schrijvershoek

2,245 residents · postal code 6901 · Part of Zevenaar, Zevenaar

Bottom 41% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

The GP, a restaurant and the supermarket in Schrijvershoek are all within eight hundred metres and the station a kilometre and a half away, which yields a 9.3 for amenities. The primary school is the exception, at fifteen hundred metres, and that is exactly the distance weighing most heavily in the families pillar. Hence a 4.5 there, reinforced by a population of which almost three in ten are over 65.

The 3.1 for wealth & income is this neighbourhood's sharpest figure. More than three and a half per cent of residents receive social assistance, over four times the national rate; the share of high incomes comes to half the median and that of low incomes lies far above it. Only vacancy stays low. Property values, at sixty per cent of the national middle, do the rest.

The safety pillar of 7.3 shows that this income picture says nothing about crime: violence, property crime and vandalism all lie below the median.

no. 7,837 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 23 of 36 in Zevenaar

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Is Schrijvershoek a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schrijvershoek comes out at 22 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.

Total crime

21.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

5.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 54 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.

Supermarket

0.8 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.4 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 253,000

Welfare recipients

35.6 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

48%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

46%

Social housing

50%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

61%

Built after 2000

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

2,435 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

55%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,559

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.3 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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The figures ⌄

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

23%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schrijvershoek has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+29%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,435 — 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 Schrijvershoek a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schrijvershoek comes out at 22 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 Schrijvershoek?

In Schrijvershoek the police recorded 54 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Schrijvershoek calculated?

Schrijvershoek scores 5.5 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 Schrijvershoek 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.