district in Súdwest-Fryslân
Sneek
Sneek has 20 neighbourhoods with 35,135 residents in total.
Sneek is Friesland's watersports town par excellence, twenty neighbourhoods and just over 35,000 residents from Duinterpen to De Domp. Quiet and nature take 6.5, no surprise in a town ringed by lakes, and amenities come out a shade higher at 7.7. Safety (6.0) sits just below the national median and wealth and income stay modest at 4.4. The 6.0 overall paints a relaxed provincial town with water never far away.
no. 5 of the 21 districts of Súdwest-Fryslân
Short answer: Sneek scores 6.2 as a district of Súdwest-Fryslân, no. 5 of the 21 districts of Súdwest-Fryslân. Its strongest neighbourhood is Loënga (9.9), the worst Lemmerweg-West (2.8). The district has 20 neighbourhoods with 35,135 residents in total.
Key figures for Sneek
- residents
- 35,135
- neighbourhoods
- 20
- km² of land
- 29.3
How Sneek 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, 1,574 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 Sneek looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,034 — 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 Sneek, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Sneek
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Sneek.
Highest grades
Neighbourhoods in Sneek
Sorted by total grade
- 1Loënga9.9
- 2Zwetteplan9.6
- 3Duinterpen9.1
- 4De Domp9.1
- 5IJsbrechtum8.1
- 6Noordoosthoek7.9
- 7Bomenbuurt7.1
- 8Hemdijk6.6
- 9Omgeving Leeuwarderweg en bungalowpark6.2
- 10Stadsfenne5.5
- 11Offingawier5.5
- 12Noorderhoek II5.3
- 13Het Eiland5.2
- 14Stationsbuurt5.2
- 15Noorderhoek I5.0
- 16Sperkhem en industrieterrein Houkesloot4.8
- 17Tinga3.9
- 18Lemmerweg-Oost3.3
- 19Sneek binnen de grachten3.0
- 20Lemmerweg-West2.8