neighbourhood in Zuidplas
Esse Zoom Laag
1,920 residents · postal code 2911 · Part of Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel wijk 04, Zuidplas
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Three in four households in Esse Zoom Laag have children and only two per cent of residents are 65 or older, in homes that were almost all put up after the turn of the century.
Even so, the families pillar sticks at 6.6. That comes down to distance: the primary school is nearly three kilometres away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that figure. For people living here the car or the cargo bike is not a luxury but daily routine, including for the supermarket and the GP.
The wealth & income pillar, by contrast, is strong across the board: property value sits well above the national median, the top income group is more than twice as broad as nationally, the bottom one is thinner, and social assistance and vacancy both stay below the middle. Not a single component contradicts the 9.7, and that is rare.
- no. 1,279 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 47 in Zuidplas
How Esse Zoom Laag scores
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Is Esse Zoom Laag a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Esse Zoom Laag comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Esse Zoom Laag is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 24 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
Esse Zoom Laag has strikingly many children under 15: 33%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1533%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
NL median 28%
- 65+2%
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
3.3 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
8% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
76% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,581 — 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 Esse Zoom Laag a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Esse Zoom Laag comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Esse Zoom Laag is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Esse Zoom Laag?
In Esse Zoom Laag the police recorded 24 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Esse Zoom Laag calculated?
Esse Zoom Laag scores 9.3 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 Esse Zoom Laag 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zuidplas.
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