neighbourhood in Zwolle

Binnenstad-Zuid

2,370 residents · postal code 8011 · Part of Binnenstad, Zwolle

Bottom 28% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

A 9.9 for amenities and a 3.7 for safety: Binnenstad-Zuid is the centre of Zwolle and pays the full price for it. But the usual city-centre story — things get stolen, little else happens — does not hold here. Property offences are almost ten times the national level, and so is violence. Only burglary stays well below the middle, which makes sense in a neighbourhood where two in three households live alone and a quarter of the homes are owner-occupied.

The wealth & income pillar is just as ambiguous. The income distribution barely differs from the country, but social assistance is more than three times as high here and vacancy more than double. Those are the two components dragging the score down, not the incomes.

Just over a tenth of the surface is water. That offsets part of the low share of green, because at this noise level and this density the quiet & nature score could have come out lower.

no. 9,431 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 48 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Binnenstad-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

147.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

18.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

86.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 795 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.7 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.5 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 369,000

Welfare recipients

25.3 per 1,000

High incomes

20%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

26%

Social housing

16%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

18%

Built after 2000

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

8,012 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

22%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

12%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

3,760

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.7 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.9 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Binnenstad-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 47%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–154%
NL median 14%
15–2521%
NL median 11%
25–4547%
NL median 22%
45–6518%
NL median 28%
65+11%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
68% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,012 — 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 Binnenstad-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Binnenstad-Zuid comes out at 148 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binnenstad-Zuid 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 Binnenstad-Zuid?

In Binnenstad-Zuid the police recorded 795 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (148 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 Binnenstad-Zuid calculated?

Binnenstad-Zuid scores 4.6 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 Binnenstad-Zuid 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.