neighbourhood in Capelle aan den IJssel
Hovenbuurt
2,345 residents · postal code 2903 · Part of Middelwatering Oost, Capelle aan den IJssel
Everything for children close by, and little room
Almost half of the households in the Hovenbuurt have children and a quarter of residents are under fifteen, while only one in three homes is a single-family house. That combination — families in mostly stacked housing — is less common than it looks, and together with the primary school seven hundred metres away it produces a 9.3 for families.
Wealth & income gets no further than 4.7 and that is a mixed picture: the income distribution differs little from the country and vacancy is low, but the property value is below the median and the social assistance rate almost four times above it. That last component does most of the work here.
The high building density and a noise level four decibels Lden above the middle keep quiet & nature at 4.7, despite water above the national value.
- no. 3,550 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 23 of 66 in Capelle aan den IJssel
How Hovenbuurt scores
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Is Hovenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hovenbuurt comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 67 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
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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
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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
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Who lives here
Hovenbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 24%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1524%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,918 — 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 Hovenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hovenbuurt comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Hovenbuurt?
In Hovenbuurt the police recorded 67 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Hovenbuurt calculated?
Hovenbuurt scores 8.0 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 Hovenbuurt 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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