neighbourhood in Zwolle
Westenholte-Stins
2,550 residents · postal code 8042 · Part of Westenholte, Zwolle
Safe streets, thinner wallets
A 9.8 for safety is exceptional, and in Westenholte-Stins it is no fluke: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism all four sit below the national midpoint.
That the neighbourhood gets no further than 4.9 on wealth & income has, alongside property values, one clear cause: social assistance is more than three times as common here as it is nationally. There is barely any vacancy and the income breakdown hardly deviates, so it is this single component that drags the score down.
The 5.4 for amenities is the price of a residential district on the edge of town. The supermarket is around the corner, but for a doctor or a restaurant you have to head further into Zwolle. For families that matters less: the primary school is six hundred metres away, and that explains most of the 7.6 on that pillar.
- no. 3,180 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 73 in Zwolle
How Westenholte-Stins scores
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Is Westenholte-Stins a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Westenholte-Stins comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Westenholte-Stins 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.
In 2025, 32 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.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
The age profile of Westenholte-Stins looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,920 — 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 Westenholte-Stins a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Westenholte-Stins comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Westenholte-Stins is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Westenholte-Stins?
In Westenholte-Stins the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Westenholte-Stins calculated?
Westenholte-Stins scores 8.2 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 Westenholte-Stins 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.
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