neighbourhood in Zoetermeer
Seghwaert-Zuid-West
7,235 residents · postal code 2724 · Part of Palenstein, Zoetermeer
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
The safety score is missing for Seghwaert-Zuid-West. The total of 8.1 therefore rests on four pillars instead of five here, and this page says nothing about registered offences. That is the first thing to know before you compare that score with another neighbourhood.
What is there is a wealth pillar of 4.3, in a neighbourhood where the income distribution barely differs from the national picture. The low score comes mainly from two other components: the property value, which stays well below the Dutch median, and the social assistance rate, which lies two and a half times above it. The vacancy does not help either.
The 9.4 for families is for the most part distance, with a primary school around the corner, and not the share of children, which is ordinary.
- no. 3,331 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 24 in Zoetermeer
How Seghwaert-Zuid-West scores
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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
Seghwaert-Zuid-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,908 — 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
How is the grade for Seghwaert-Zuid-West calculated?
Seghwaert-Zuid-West scores 8.1 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 Seghwaert-Zuid-West 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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