Historic Delfshaven — the harbour the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from — plus Spangen and Bospolder-Tussendijken behind it. Rotterdam runs a Veiligheidsindex as part of its Wijkprofiel, built from crime and nuisance figures together with a survey of around 30,000 residents between March and October 2025. Citywide it fell from 110 in 2022 to 104 in 2026, with the perception of safety dropping faster than the recorded figures. Tussendijken is among the five focus areas that improved against the city trend and beat the council's expectations. The historic harbour itself is calm and worth the trip; the surrounding streets are ordinary residential Rotterdam with a long-running improvement programme.
Delfshaven — Rotterdam, Netherlands
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No concerns found day
Average night
In detail
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This rating comes from a structured local-source assessment. This specific area was reviewed against credible local sources — local and national news, municipal and police-published material, and official surveys where they exist — and the signals were consolidated across sources rather than taken from any single report, with the reasoning and the sources shown above. Rotterdam publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does publish one, Wandroz uses it instead of an assessment. Where a review finds nothing documented, that is recorded as no findings rather than as a safety rating.
Frequently asked questions
Is Delfshaven safe?
Wandroz currently rates Delfshaven in Rotterdam as an area where the review found nothing traveller-relevant to report during the day and roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Rotterdam at night. This comes from a structured local-source assessment: an area-level review of credible local sources — local and national news, municipal and police-published material, and official surveys where they exist — consolidated across sources rather than taken from a single report. Rotterdam publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does, Wandroz uses it instead.
Is Delfshaven safe at night?
At night, Delfshaven is rated as roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Rotterdam. If you're unsure, it's worth checking recent local reviews for your specific street or block, since a neighbourhood-wide rating can't capture block-by-block variation.
Is Delfshaven a good area to stay in as a tourist?
Delfshaven's day rating (an area where the review found nothing traveller-relevant to report) is the more relevant one for typical daytime tourist activity; check the night rating too if you'll be out late. Note that the Booking.com link on this page searches Rotterdam, not Delfshaven specifically: Booking does not list this neighbourhood as a destination of its own, so check each property's address against the map above.
Is there official crime data for Delfshaven?
Not an official government crime feed — Delfshaven's rating comes from Wandroz's own current local/national press and survey research for this specific area instead (see the note on this page for what was checked and the sources used). An absence of recent negative coverage is treated as inconclusive, not as proof the area is safe. If you live in or know Delfshaven well, you can suggest a correction using the link below.
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