neighbourhood in Delft

Buitenhof-Noord

4,115 residents · postal code 2625 · Part of Buitenhof, Delft

Bottom 42% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Thirteen thousand residents per square kilometre and still a 7.2 for quiet & nature: that is the striking figure in Buitenhof-Noord. Almost sixty per cent of the surroundings are green, the tree canopy is more than twice as dense as the national figure and noise stays below the median. Those three together offset the density.

Wealth & income, a 2.7, shows the opposite. A property value barely over half the national median, few households on a high income, more than six in ten on a low one, and social assistance at almost eight times the Dutch middle.

Amenities reach a 9.8: supermarket, doctor, restaurant and school are all within four hundred metres. Few neighbourhoods in Delft come close.

no. 7,588 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 39 of 75 in Delft

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Is Buitenhof-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buitenhof-Noord 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.

Total crime

27.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

11.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 132 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

2.4 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

0.9 km

Café

0.9 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 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

€ 243,000

Welfare recipients

60.8 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

62%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

16%

Social housing

75%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

19%

Built after 2000

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

13,102 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

59%

Trees nearby

20%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,760

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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

21%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Buitenhof-Noord has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 19%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2519%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+28%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,102 — 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 Buitenhof-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buitenhof-Noord 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 Buitenhof-Noord?

In Buitenhof-Noord the police recorded 132 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 Buitenhof-Noord calculated?

Buitenhof-Noord scores 5.6 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 Buitenhof-Noord 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.