neighbourhood in Delft

Heilige Land

2,120 residents · postal code 2612 · Part of Vrijenban, Delft

Bottom 26% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism in Heilige Land are all four above the national median. That is rarer than a low safety score itself, and it makes the 3.0 here unambiguous: no category softens the picture.

The 3.3 for wealth & income has one component that towers over the rest. The number of residents on social assistance is many times the national median, while vacancy stays below it. Property value is low; it is that combination, not vacancy, that makes the figure.

For quiet & nature you would expect a lower score than the 5.1 recorded here, given more than twelve thousand residents per square kilometre. The tree canopy helps: it is almost twice the national norm, and there is more open water than in most neighbourhoods. Only the sound level is far above the national median.

no. 9,805 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 52 of 75 in Delft

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Is Heilige Land a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heilige Land comes out at 34 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

34.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.4 per 1,000

Property crime

13.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 94 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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

€ 287,000

Welfare recipients

42.5 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

65%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

31%

Built after 2000

15%

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

12,076 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,199

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.5 km

Households with children

27%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Heilige Land has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,076 — 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 Heilige Land a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heilige Land comes out at 34 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 Heilige Land?

In Heilige Land the police recorded 94 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Heilige Land calculated?

Heilige Land scores 4.4 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 Heilige Land 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.