FAQ

The grade runs from 1 to 10 and shows how well a place fits your answers, compared with the other places left after your dealbreakers. The best-fitting place gets a 10 and the worst-fitting a 1, even when the differences are small. The grade therefore says more as more questions are answered. A tap on a place shows for what percentage the wishes fit there and which wish adds most to that.

The opening map shows the Leefbaarometer of the Ministry of the Interior, a national estimate of how liveable each neighbourhood is. On that map a 1 stands for the weakest places in the country and a 10 for the best. With each answer the Leefbaarometer counts for less, and after eight answers only your own answers determine the map.

Grey places are excluded because they fail one or more dealbreakers. If nearly the whole map is grey, the dealbreakers together leave little. Relaxing one brings places back. Places without homes, such as fields, water and industrial estates, get no grade and no colour.

Your places is the list of the ten postcode areas with the highest grades. An area gets the highest grade that at least ten of its homes reach, so that one outlier doesn't decide the ranking. When grades are equal, the area with the most homes comes first. A tap on an area takes the map there. The link next to it opens the listings on Funda in that postcode area, for sale or for rent and within the price that was set. For renters there is also a link to Pararius, for the whole town.

In the search field you can type an address or paste the link to a home on Funda or Pararius. On a phone the search field is behind the magnifying glass. The map goes to that place and shows the grade and what it is made up of. A Pararius link has no house number. The map then goes to the street, after which you tap the home's location yourself.

The colours run from red for the lowest grades to blue for the highest. For someone who finds red and green hard to tell apart, the map runs from brown through yellow to blue, so low and high grades still differ. The Colour-blind friendly colours setting in the legend makes the difference larger. The map then runs from light to dark and can be read without any colour. On a phone, a tap on the colour bar opens the legend. The browser remembers the choice.

Travel times are door-to-door estimates. For walking, cycling and driving the map uses the straight-line distance plus a 30% detour. The speed is 5 km/h on foot, 15 km/h by bike and 20 km/h by e-bike. By car the speed rises with the distance, from 25 km/h for a short drive across town to 80 km/h for a long one. A train journey consists of cycling to a station nearby, four minutes to park the bike, the journey by the timetable of a weekday morning between 7 and 9, including waiting and changes, and walking from the station of arrival. Engineering works are left out, so a line that is temporarily closed counts as open. Bus, tram and metro are not included. As a result the train comes out too slow in large cities and sometimes too fast in the countryside. A tap on a place shows the journey leg by leg.

Measured comes from counts or registers. Modelled is calculated, like noise or flood depth. Indicative means the source itself calls it a rough estimate at neighbourhood level. Every layer also shows the year of its data.

The data comes from open sources, such as CBS, RIVM, Kadaster, the Klimaateffectatlas and OpenStreetMap. Every source and licence is on the sources page.

The map is based on estimates and can contain errors. A mistake, a travel time that looks off or a suggestion can be reported to contact@wilikdaarwonen.nl. Please mention which place it concerns. A link from Share your map shows exactly the same map, which makes a report easier to check.

The map uses no data on income, education or socio-economic status. That data describes the residents of a neighbourhood and not the place itself. What can be chosen is the price of a home and features of the surroundings, such as greenery, noise and how busy it is.

Open maps of loneliness and health per neighbourhood exist, but the site doesn't use them. They describe the health and the age of residents. A neighbourhood with many older or ill people is not a worse place to live, while a grade would suggest that it is.

Exam and final test results depend strongly on the pupils a school takes in, for example on how educated their parents are, and say little about the quality of the teaching. The map therefore uses only the distance to the nearest primary school and to the nearest secondary schools, both pre-vocational (vmbo) and general or pre-university (havo/vwo). The Education Inspectorate's judgements don't count, because the open file dates from 2018.

Data on origin or migration background is not used. It is removed when the source files are read in, so that it cannot affect a grade indirectly either.

Religion and voting don't count. There have been no good figures on religion since 2015. Election results would be the only substitute, and political preference is deliberately kept out of the map.

Two features count, because neither side of them is better than the other: how busy it is and whether mostly younger or older people live there. Whether someone would rather live among young families or among pensioners is a personal preference.

The site was made by Sander Lamballais and has no commercial purpose. It carries no ads, and the links to Funda and Pararius are plain links for which no fee is received. No data is sold.

The answers are kept in your own browser, and the map is calculated there. No server stores answers. The data files the browser fetches do show which questions were answered. A link from Share your map holds the answers, and a link to Funda or Pararius holds the postcode area or the town and the price that was set. Which party sees which data is in the privacy statement.

The map is a tool for exploring places and gives no advice about a home. Every grade is an estimate for a square of 100 by 100 metres, based on open data that is sometimes a few years old. About a single home the grade says nothing with certainty. When buying, a building survey and enquiries with the seller and the municipality, for example about the foundations, remain necessary. No rights can be derived from the map.