neighbourhood in Zoetermeer
Stadscentrum
4,595 residents · postal code 2711 · Part of Dorp, Zoetermeer
Everything close by, little to spend
Stadscentrum has no safety score. Its overall 5.1 therefore rests on four pillars instead of five, and anyone comparing this neighbourhood with another is not quite comparing like with like.
The family score of 4.3 cannot be explained by distance — the primary school is less than a kilometre away. It lies in who lives here: more than six in ten households consist of one person, the population is heavily aged, and the share of children is about half the national level.
That amenities come out at 9.1 is no surprise in this location: the supermarket, the GP and a restaurant are a few hundred metres away. The flip side sits in the quiet & nature pillar. The noise level is well above the national median, and noise weighs as heavily there as greenery, trees, water and density.
- no. 8,508 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 24 in Zoetermeer
How Stadscentrum 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
Stadscentrum has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,897 — 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 Stadscentrum calculated?
Stadscentrum scores 5.1 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 Stadscentrum 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Zoetermeer
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zoetermeer.
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