neighbourhood in Zutphen
Marswegkwartier
1,765 residents · postal code 7202 · Part of Centrum - De Hoven, Zutphen
Everything close by, safety lags
Marswegkwartier is thinly built up — few people live here per square kilometre — and still gets no further than a 4.6 for quiet & nature. The cause is noise: the measured level is more than fifteen decibels above the national median, a difference you hear. Space alone does not produce silence.
The rest of the neighbourhood is new and old at once: virtually every home was built after 2000, while four in ten residents are 65 or older and only one in five homes is a single-family house. Vacancy here is three times the national rate, and that is what keeps the wealth & income pillar at a 6.0 despite a property value above the median. The safety figure of 3.2 comes from property crime and vandalism, both well above the Dutch middle.
- no. 10,624 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 31 in Zutphen
How Marswegkwartier scores
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Is Marswegkwartier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Marswegkwartier comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Marswegkwartier 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, 151 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
Marswegkwartier has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–255%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+41%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
655 — far less 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 Marswegkwartier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Marswegkwartier comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Marswegkwartier 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 Marswegkwartier?
In Marswegkwartier the police recorded 151 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Marswegkwartier calculated?
Marswegkwartier scores 3.9 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 Marswegkwartier 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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