neighbourhood in Zuidplas
Dorrestein-Noord
1,950 residents · postal code 2912 · Part of Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel wijk 04, Zuidplas
Everything close by, little space
Everything is within half a kilometre here: supermarket, GP, restaurant, school. Dorrestein-Noord therefore scores 9.8 for amenities, and together with the families pillar that is the strongest thing this neighbourhood has to report.
The 6.5 for safety does need explaining, because the total number of reported offences is below the national middle. The difference is burglary: that figure is more than double the median, while violence, vandalism and property crime all stay under it. Burglary weighs heavily in this pillar, so one deviant category pulls the whole down. In practice that means: on the street it is quieter than average here, behind the front door it is not.
The flip side of that compactness sits in the quiet & nature pillar. Almost five thousand residents per square kilometre, greenery below the median and no open water — a 4.0, and that is the price of having everything within walking distance.
- no. 918 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 47 in Zuidplas
How Dorrestein-Noord scores
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Is Dorrestein-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorrestein-Noord comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 57 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
Dorrestein-Noord has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,891 — 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 Dorrestein-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorrestein-Noord comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Dorrestein-Noord?
In Dorrestein-Noord the police recorded 57 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Dorrestein-Noord calculated?
Dorrestein-Noord scores 9.5 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 Dorrestein-Noord 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 Zuidplas
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zuidplas.
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