neighbourhood in Beverwijk

Plantage

1,740 residents · postal code 1943 · Part of Kuenenkwartier, Beverwijk

Bottom 35% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Supermarket, GP, primary school and restaurant in Plantage are all within three to four hundred metres, and the station less than two kilometres off. That takes this neighbourhood to a 9.9 for amenities — among the hundred best-served in the country.

The safety pillar is the mirror image, and how it comes about is interesting. No single offence type really stands out, but all four are above the national median: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism, the last at almost twice the middle. The score comes from the breadth, then, not from one problem you can point at.

The 2.6 for quiet & nature fits a neighbourhood with more than ten thousand residents per square kilometre where no water is to be found and greenery within three hundred metres does not reach sixty percent of the national level. Noise, by comparison, is only modestly above the median. Living close to everything has a clear price here.

no. 8,561 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 22 of 33 in Beverwijk

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Is Plantage a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Plantage comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

29.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

10.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 65 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 334,000

Welfare recipients

28.7 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

45%

Social housing

52%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

36%

Built after 2000

33%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

10,555 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

3,184

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.4 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Plantage has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,555 — far 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.

Frequently asked questions

Is Plantage a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Plantage comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Plantage?

In Plantage the police recorded 65 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.

How is the grade for Plantage calculated?

Plantage scores 5.1 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Plantage lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.