neighbourhood in Zwijndrecht
De Were en omgeving
1,765 residents · postal code 3332 · Part of Walburg, Zwijndrecht
Everything for children close by, and little room
A 9.6 for families in a neighbourhood where four in ten residents are 65 or over: it looks wrong, but it is not. That pillar mainly measures how far away school and childcare are, and the primary school of De Were en omgeving is three hundred metres off. The score rewards the location.
Quiet & nature gets no further than 3.0. Greenery and tree canopy stay below the national median, the noise level is above it, there is no open water and the built-up area is compact. Not one component points the other way.
Reported offences sit almost exactly on the national median, but the distribution differs from the average: theft is less common and violence somewhat more so. On wealth & income it is mainly the property value that weighs, staying far below the median, while nearly half of households are on a low income.
- no. 8,012 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 50 of 70 in Zwijndrecht
How De Were en omgeving scores
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Is De Were en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Were en omgeving comes out at 24 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, 48 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
De Were en omgeving has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
NL median 28%
- 65+40%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,381 — 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 De Were en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Were en omgeving comes out at 24 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 De Were en omgeving?
In De Were en omgeving the police recorded 48 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 De Were en omgeving calculated?
De Were en omgeving scores 5.4 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 De Were en omgeving 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 Zwijndrecht.
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