district in Rotterdam
Kralingen-Crooswijk
Kralingen-Crooswijk has 8 neighbourhoods with 55,890 residents in total.
Kralingen-Crooswijk holds two souls: leafy Kralingen by the lake and working-class Oud Crooswijk. Together they house nearly 56,000 residents across eight neighbourhoods, with a top-tier amenities score of 9.4. Even so, safety weighs heavily at 3.2, and prosperity lingers at 4.3. The 4.7 overall conceals how far the district splits into parts that share little common ground.
no. 5 of the 16 districts of Rotterdam
Short answer: Kralingen-Crooswijk scores 4.7 as a district of Rotterdam, no. 5 of the 16 districts of Rotterdam. Its strongest neighbourhood is Nieuw Crooswijk (7.9), the worst De Esch (2.9). The district has 8 neighbourhoods with 55,890 residents in total.
Key figures for Kralingen-Crooswijk
- residents
- 55,890
- neighbourhoods
- 8
- km² of land
- 10.4
How Kralingen-Crooswijk 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, 4,146 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
Kralingen-Crooswijk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 22%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2522%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,019 — 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 Kralingen-Crooswijk, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Kralingen-Crooswijk
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Neighbourhoods in Kralingen-Crooswijk
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