neighbourhood in Bloemendaal
Vogelenzang
1,920 residents · postal code 2114 · Part of Vogelenzang, Bloemendaal
Safe, but few children
In Vogelenzang the strength lies in what does not happen. Violence here comes to a third of the national median and property crime to less than a third; only burglary sits marginally above. That produces a 9.0 for safety, and it is the rare version in which no single type pushes the figure up.
The wealth & income pillar looks stronger at 7.0 than its components justify. Property values are almost a hundred thousand euros above the national middle and vacancy is low, but the income spread is entirely ordinary: the share of high incomes sits at the median, the share of low incomes exactly on it. This is a neighbourhood of expensive houses, not of conspicuously rich residents.
The primary school is six hundred metres away, and yet the families pillar hangs at 5.9. That fits the age profile: almost a third of residents have passed sixty-five and the share of children is below the national middle. What distance gains here, the resident numbers take back.
- no. 1,528 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 13 of 22 in Bloemendaal
How Vogelenzang scores
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Is Vogelenzang a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelenzang comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vogelenzang is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 31 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
Vogelenzang has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4515%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,057 — less 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 Vogelenzang a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelenzang comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vogelenzang is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Vogelenzang?
In Vogelenzang the police recorded 31 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Vogelenzang calculated?
Vogelenzang scores 9.1 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 Vogelenzang 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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