neighbourhood in Zwolle

Schoonhorst

4,130 residents · postal code 8043 · Part of Stadshagen, Zwolle

Top 15% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Schoonhorst reaches a 9.3 for families: the primary school is four hundred metres away and more than a third of households have children. That is the combination this pillar responds to.

Quiet & nature lags far behind at a 5.2, and not because of noise — the noise level is in fact below the national median. What weighs it down is greenery: both the share of green within three hundred metres and the tree canopy stay under the Dutch middle, at a density of over six thousand residents per square kilometre.

Safety comes out at a 9.0. Violence, burglary and property crime all sit below the median; only vandalism rises slightly above it, and that is the lightest-weighted component of the pillar.

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no. 10 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Schoonhorst a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schoonhorst comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schoonhorst is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

16.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

4.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 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

0.9 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

1.0 km

Hospital

5.7 km

Café

3.8 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

3.0 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

€ 367,000

Welfare recipients

16.9 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

59%

Social housing

20%

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

6,389 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

Water share

10%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,775

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.5 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

37%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

3.0 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schoonhorst has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 14%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,389 — 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 Schoonhorst a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Schoonhorst?

In Schoonhorst the police recorded 75 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Schoonhorst calculated?

Schoonhorst scores 8.9 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 Schoonhorst 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.