district in Dordrecht
Het Reeland
Het Reeland has 11 neighbourhoods with 11,800 residents in total.
Het Reeland borders Dordrecht's centre, with eleven neighbourhoods and nearly 12,000 residents. Amenities score high at 8.9, and safety follows at 5.8. Against that, quiet & nature (3.9) lags well behind, and wealth & income (5.0) doesn't convince either. The overall comes to 6.9. A densely built, well-served district where greenery and living quality convince the least.
no. 4 of the 13 districts of Dordrecht
Short answer: Het Reeland scores 6.9 as a district of Dordrecht, no. 4 of the 13 districts of Dordrecht. Its strongest neighbourhood is Indische Buurt-Noord (9.6), the worst Vogelplein-Aalscholverstraat en omgeving (3.4). The district has 11 neighbourhoods with 11,800 residents in total.
Key figures for Het Reeland
- residents
- 11,800
- neighbourhoods
- 11
- km² of land
- 2.8
How Het Reeland scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 536 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
Het Reeland has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,138 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Het Reeland, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Het Reeland
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Het Reeland.
Neighbourhoods in Het Reeland
Sorted by total grade
- 1Indische Buurt-Noord9.6
- 2Boeroestraat en omgeving9.6
- 3Heysterbachstraat en omgeving9.2
- 4Hoekenessestraat en omgeving8.7
- 5Sportterrein Krommedijk8.4
- 6Standhasenstraat en omgeving7.9
- 7Wantijpark en omgeving7.1
- 8Transvaalstraat en omgeving6.5
- 9Indische Buurt-Zuid6.5
- 10Maria Montessorilaan en omgeving5.4
- 11Vogelplein-Aalscholverstraat en omgeving3.4