Feijenoord () is a borough of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, south of the Nieuwe Maas. Feyenoord football club was formed there, but now play in the neighbouring township of IJsselmonde.
It was a centre of shipbuilding in the nineteenth century, principally at the Fijenoord yard.
Neighbourhoods in Feijenoord
Ethnicity
The majority of the population of Feijenoord are immigrants, approximately 36% of the population are Dutch natives, 8% are western immigrants and 56% are non-western immigrants.
The biggest non-western immigrant groups are
Moroccans (10%), Netherlands Antillean (4%), Surinamese (11%) and
Turkish people (19%).
Problematic neighbourhoods
According to a list made by Eberhard van der Laan (State Secretary of infrastructure), four out of the eight neighbourhoods in Feijenoord are amongst the most problematic neighbourhoods in the Netherlands.
The Bloemhof neighbourhood ranks at number 4 on the list, making it the most problematic neighbourhood in its district and the second in the south of
Rotterdam, followed by
Hillesluis at rank 13,
Afrikaanderwijk at rank 33 and
Vreewijk at rank 44.
Poverty
Around 29% of the total population of Feijenoord lives on
welfare spending, while the average for Rotterdam is 21%.
Bloemhof and Hillesluis neighbourhoods have an unemployment rate above 40%,
which is higher than the average for Rotterdam (13%) and the Netherlands (6%).
63% of the population of Feijenoord has a low level of educational attainment, compared to the Rotterdam average of 49%.
== Images ==
in Feijenoord neighbourhood (1804)]]
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