neighbourhood in Zuidplas
Zuidplas Dalen
2,065 residents · postal code 2914 · Part of Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel wijk 04, Zuidplas
Everything close by, safety lags
Zuidplas Dalen has an amenities score of 9.9 and a safety score of 2.7 — two extremes that come down to the same thing. Supermarket, GP, restaurant and station are all within a kilometre, and nearly twice as many offences are recorded as is usual nationally.
Those recorded offences are broadly spread. Property crime runs at more than twice the median, but burglary and violence are clearly above it too; no category clears the rest.
The families score of 4.9 is surprising in a neighbourhood where everything is so close, but the primary school is the exception: it is more than a kilometre away, and school distance is by far the heaviest component of that pillar. A quarter of residents are 65 or over and more than four in ten households consist of one person.
- no. 11,416 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 42 of 47 in Zuidplas
How Zuidplas Dalen scores
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Is Zuidplas Dalen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuidplas Dalen comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zuidplas Dalen is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 131 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
The age profile of Zuidplas Dalen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,293 — 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 Zuidplas Dalen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuidplas Dalen comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zuidplas Dalen is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Zuidplas Dalen?
In Zuidplas Dalen the police recorded 131 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (44 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 Zuidplas Dalen calculated?
Zuidplas Dalen scores 3.5 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 Zuidplas Dalen 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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