neighbourhood in Bloemendaal
Veen en Duin
450 residents · postal code 2061 · Part of Bloemendaal, Bloemendaal
Everything close by, safety lags
An address in Bloemendaal promises more than the figures for Veen en Duin deliver. Property values are only forty thousand euros above the national median, the share of households on a high income is below it, and the social assistance rate is almost three times the national middle. That 5.5 for wealth & income is not a measurement error but a description of who lives there — and it is not what the municipality's name suggests.
A third of residents are over sixty-five and more than half of households are single-person. With a quarter of the homes being single-family houses, that points to a neighbourhood of smaller dwellings, dune setting notwithstanding.
The quiet & nature pillar reaches 6.2 thanks to tree canopy, double the national median, and greenery well above the middle. What holds it back is noise, more than four decibels above the median, and the absence of water. The railway station is exactly a kilometre away, which is exceptionally close for a place of this size.
- no. 7,391 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 22 in Bloemendaal
How Veen en Duin scores
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Is Veen en Duin a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Veen en Duin comes out at 27 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.
In 2025, 15 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Veen en Duin has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+34%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,005 — 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 Veen en Duin a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Veen en Duin comes out at 27 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 Veen en Duin?
In Veen en Duin the police recorded 15 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Veen en Duin calculated?
Veen en Duin scores 5.8 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 Veen en Duin 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Bloemendaal.
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