neighbourhood in Delft
Den Hoorn
2,885 residents · postal code 2614 · Part of Voordijkshoorn, Delft
Everything for children close by, and little room
In Den Hoorn more than seven in ten households have children and fewer than one in thirty residents are over 65. Such an age structure is rare in the Netherlands, and together with a primary school four hundred metres away it produces a 9.9 for families — here the pillar holds up both on distance and on who lives there.
Wealth and income reaches 9.4 and that score stands across the full width: property value is more than one and a half times the Dutch middle value, the top income group more than twice as broad as nationally, the bottom one narrower, and vacancy minimal. Only social assistance is slightly above the national level.
The 3.8 for quiet and nature is the price. Noise is only just above the Dutch middle, but greenery within three hundred metres stays below it and the tree canopy reaches half that — a newly built neighbourhood at a density you would sooner expect in a city centre.
- no. 120 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 75 in Delft
How Den Hoorn scores
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Is Den Hoorn a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Den Hoorn comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Den Hoorn 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, 45 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
Den Hoorn has strikingly many children under 15: 33%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1533%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+3%
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
3.2 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
71% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,320 — 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 Den Hoorn a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Den Hoorn comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Den Hoorn 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 Den Hoorn?
In Den Hoorn the police recorded 45 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Den Hoorn calculated?
Den Hoorn scores 9.9 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 Den Hoorn 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Delft
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Delft.
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