neighbourhood in Zwolle

Bollebieste

1,730 residents · postal code 8021 · Part of Diezerpoort, Zwolle

Bottom 27% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

The rate of social assistance in Bollebieste is nearly ten times the national middle, and combined with property values far below the median and an income distribution unfavourable at both ends, that yields a 2.8 for wealth & income. Only vacancy is low.

Yet this neighbourhood scores an 8.3 for families, and that is no contradiction but a matter of distance: the primary school is three hundred metres away and that component weighs heavily in the pillar. What a family lacks in money it does not have to make up in travel time.

Among the crime figures, vandalism stands out. That type is at nearly four times the national median, while violence and burglary stay below it. Vandalism is the problem here, not aggression.

no. 9,562 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 49 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Bollebieste a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bollebieste comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

33.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

10.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

8.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 75 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.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.1 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

1.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 267,000

Welfare recipients

75.1 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

51%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

22%

Social housing

59%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

63%

Built after 2000

12%

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

6,755 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,741

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 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

0.3 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Bollebieste has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,755 — 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 Bollebieste a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bollebieste comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Bollebieste?

In Bollebieste the police recorded 75 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Bollebieste calculated?

Bollebieste scores 4.5 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 Bollebieste 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.