neighbourhood in Delft
Multatulibuurt
1,745 residents · postal code 2624 · Part of Voorhof, Delft
Everything close by, little to spend
The railway station is eight hundred metres away and the supermarket closer still; that is where the 9.1 for amenities comes from, the highest of the five pillar scores in the Multatulibuurt.
The reported-offence figure is almost three times the national median, and that is nearly all down to property crime. Residential burglary is rare here, a fraction of the national level, while violence sits above the median. The safety score of 4.2 therefore follows not one story but two: a lot of theft and more violence than average.
Wealth & income does not rise above a 3.2, and here the components do agree. Nearly two thirds of households fall into the lowest income group, the highest group is a fraction of the national share, and the number of social assistance payments is far above the median. Only the vacancy rate is minimal.
- no. 9,575 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 47 of 75 in Delft
How Multatulibuurt scores
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Is Multatulibuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Multatulibuurt comes out at 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Multatulibuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 153 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
Multatulibuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 28%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2528%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,410 — 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 Multatulibuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Multatulibuurt comes out at 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Multatulibuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Multatulibuurt?
In Multatulibuurt the police recorded 153 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (66 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 Multatulibuurt calculated?
Multatulibuurt scores 4.5 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 Multatulibuurt 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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