district in Rotterdam
Feijenoord
Feijenoord has 9 neighbourhoods with 80,745 residents in total.
Feijenoord counts nearly 81,000 residents and carries the sharpest contrasts of Rotterdam-Zuid. Amenities score an exceptional 9.1, the polished Kop van Zuid standing alongside older quarters such as Hillesluis and the Afrikaanderwijk. Set against that are prosperity at 3.4 and safety at 3.6, both far below the median, and with 3.3 for quiet and nature nowhere here is still. The overall 4.2 lays bare the gap between how reachable this district is and how hard it can be to live in.
no. 10 of the 16 districts of Rotterdam
Short answer: Feijenoord scores 4.2 as a district of Rotterdam, no. 10 of the 16 districts of Rotterdam. Its strongest neighbourhood is Kop van Zuid - Entrepot (6.9), the worst Vreewijk (3.0). The district has 9 neighbourhoods with 80,745 residents in total.
Key figures for Feijenoord
- residents
- 80,745
- neighbourhoods
- 9
- km² of land
- 6.6
How Feijenoord 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, 5,537 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
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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
Feijenoord has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,125 — 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 Feijenoord, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Feijenoord
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Neighbourhoods in Feijenoord
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