neighbourhood in Zwolle

Oud-Westenholte

2,570 residents · postal code 8042 · Part of Westenholte, Zwolle

Top 19% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

More than four in ten households in Oud-Westenholte have children, and with a school within a kilometre that yields an 8.9 for families. Here distance and population structure exceptionally point the same way; in most neighbourhoods one of the two drags the other down.

The 9.1 for safety completes the picture: violence, burglary and property crime all three stay below the national median, and the total is well under it.

The weak spot is the setting. Greenery within three hundred metres and the tree canopy are both below the national level, and noise above it — together a 4.0 for quiet & nature. For a neighbourhood on the edge of Zwolle that is a disappointment you would not read off the map.

A restaurant is only found some three kilometres away, but that counts for little: supermarket and GP are within eight hundred metres, and those weigh heaviest in the amenities pillar.

no. 2,464 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 14 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Oud-Westenholte a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oud-Westenholte comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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

19.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

7.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 59 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

0.8 km

Train station

2.9 km

Restaurant

3.3 km

Hospital

6.8 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

3.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 423,000

Welfare recipients

11.7 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

66%

Social housing

29%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

84%

Built after 2000

27%

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

3,805 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,379

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

0.7 km

Households with children

43%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.9 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oud-Westenholte has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,805 — 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 Oud-Westenholte a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oud-Westenholte comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Oud-Westenholte?

In Oud-Westenholte the police recorded 59 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Oud-Westenholte calculated?

Oud-Westenholte scores 8.6 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 Oud-Westenholte 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.