neighbourhood in Zwolle

Nieuw-Assendorp

3,040 residents · postal code 8012 · Part of Assendorp, Zwolle

Bottom 46% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Anyone living in Nieuw-Assendorp has everything around the corner: GP, supermarket, restaurant and primary school are all within half a kilometre, and that yields a 9.6 for amenities alongside a 9.3 for families.

The bill arrives at safety. Residential burglary here is at more than four times the national median and theft and vandalism also occur more often than average; only violence stays level with the national median. So that 3.7 is mostly about burglary, and that is a risk a resident can partly limit.

And it is crowded: with nearly eleven thousand residents per square kilometre and little greenery in the immediate surroundings, quiet & nature gets no further than a 3.0.

no. 7,132 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 35 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Nieuw-Assendorp a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Nieuw-Assendorp comes out at 31 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

30.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.7 per 1,000

Property crime

13.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 126 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.2 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.1 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.9 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

€ 330,000

Welfare recipients

19.7 per 1,000

High incomes

21%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

35%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

73%

Built after 2000

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

10,851 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

34%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,655

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.6 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

0.4 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Nieuw-Assendorp has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,851 — 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 Nieuw-Assendorp a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Nieuw-Assendorp comes out at 31 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 Nieuw-Assendorp?

In Nieuw-Assendorp the police recorded 126 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 Nieuw-Assendorp calculated?

Nieuw-Assendorp scores 5.9 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 Nieuw-Assendorp 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.