district in Hilversum
Zuid
Zuid has 5 neighbourhoods with 17,650 residents in total.
Everything for children close by, and little room
Hilversum-Zuid combines the well-off Bloemenkwartier with the Zeeheldenkwartier, five neighbourhoods and just over 17,000 residents. Amenities (8.5) and safety (7.7) sit well above the middle, and wealth and income come to 6.7. Quiet and nature is strikingly low for a Gooi town at 4.7: built up and thoroughly urban. That holds the overall to 6.6. Families score 9.1. A prosperous, urban residential district close to the centre and the media companies.
no. 3 of the 9 districts of Hilversum
Short answer: Zuid scores 8.8 as a district of Hilversum, no. 3 of the 9 districts of Hilversum. Its strongest neighbourhood is Schrijverskwartier (10.0), the lowest-scoring Bloemenkwartier Zuid (7.3). The district has 5 neighbourhoods with 17,650 residents in total.
Key figures for Zuid
- residents
- 17,650
- neighbourhoods
- 5
- km² of land
- 2.2
How Zuid 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, 455 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 Zuid looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,366 — 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 Zuid, weighted by population.
The best and lowest-scoring neighbourhoods of Zuid
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zuid.
Neighbourhoods in Zuid
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