It consists of a small village centre on the railway line between Utrecht and 's-Hertogenbosch and a 5 km long ribbon of farms along the small channel Schalkwijksche Wetering.

van der Aa,[3] Schalkwijk was a heerlijkheid owned by the lords of Culemborg.

In 1523, the dike of the Lek river at Schalkwijk broke, and the village was severely damaged by the flooding.

[3] When the current municipal system was introduced in the Netherlands in 1812, Schalkwijk and Tull en 't Waal merged to become a single municipality called Schalkwijk.

In 1818, Tull en 't Waal became independent again, and Schalkwijk was a separate municipality until it merged with Houten on 1 January 1962.