district in Haarlem
Meerwijk
Meerwijk has 7 neighbourhoods with 9,570 residents in total.
Meerwijk in Haarlem-Schalkwijk carries the names of scholars and inventors, seven neighbourhoods around the Schalkwijk shopping centre, together over 9,500 residents. Amenities tower over everything at 8.7. Below that it thins: safety 4.3, quiet and nature 3.7, wealth 3.8. That last figure ranks among the lowest in the set. With an overall of 5.3, Meerwijk reads as fully served, but with heavy livability challenges.
no. 18 of the 21 districts of Haarlem
Short answer: Meerwijk scores 5.3 as a district of Haarlem, no. 18 of the 21 districts of Haarlem. Its strongest neighbourhood is Nobelprijsbuurt (6.9), the worst Winkelcentrum Schalkwijk (3.5). The district has 7 neighbourhoods with 9,570 residents in total.
Key figures for Meerwijk
- residents
- 9,570
- neighbourhoods
- 7
- km² of land
- 1.4
How Meerwijk 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, 484 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.
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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
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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.
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The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
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Who lives here
Meerwijk has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,044 — 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 Meerwijk, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Meerwijk
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Neighbourhoods in Meerwijk
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