neighbourhood in Zwolle

Spoolde

315 residents · postal code 8041 · Part of Poort van Zwolle, Zwolle

Bottom 40% in the Netherlands

Well-off, and well out of town

Spoolde has only around 315 residents, which makes the low safety score of 4.5 hard to read: a few reports immediately register in a per-thousand figure. What the numbers show is property crime at more than one and a half times the national median while burglary stays far below.

The wealth & income pillar does point unambiguously one way, at a 9.6: property values are well above the median, the share of high incomes above it, no social assistance recorded and little vacancy. The share of low incomes sits almost exactly on the national middle.

In the quiet & nature pillar two things collide. Building is sparse and a tenth of the surface is water, but noise exposure is seven and a half decibels above the median; on balance a 6.3 remains.

no. 7,959 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 41 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Spoolde a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Spoolde comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spoolde is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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

41.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

16.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 24 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

2.2 km

GP practice

2.9 km

Train station

3.1 km

Restaurant

2.1 km

Hospital

5.7 km

Café

2.9 km

Library

3.4 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

€ 625,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

27%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

97%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

97%

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

415 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

49%

Trees nearby

Water share

10%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

167

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

2.7 km

Households with children

45%

Childcare

2.3 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4514%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
NL median 28%
65+24%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
415 — far less 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 Spoolde a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Spoolde comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spoolde 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 Spoolde?

In Spoolde the police recorded 24 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Spoolde calculated?

Spoolde scores 5.4 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 Spoolde 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.