neighbourhood in Delft

Poptahof-Zuid

1,900 residents · postal code 2624 · Part of Voorhof, Delft

Bottom 48% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

The crime figure in Poptahof-Zuid is almost three times the national median, and one type explains nearly all of it: property crime, at five times the median. Residential burglary, by contrast, hardly occurs. Violence is above the national median and weighs heaviest within the pillar, so the 4.2 does not come from theft alone.

Amenities reach a 9.9 here, among the highest in the country: supermarket, GP and restaurant are two to three hundred metres away and the station one and a half kilometres. That is the other side of sixteen thousand residents per square kilometre.

Wealth & income stops at a 4.6, and there too the components do not point one way. The property value is below the national median and there are more than four times as many social assistance payments as average, but the income distribution barely deviates.

no. 6,893 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 37 of 75 in Delft

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Is Poptahof-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

70.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

45.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 211 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

0.2 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

0.7 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

€ 315,000

Welfare recipients

36.8 per 1,000

High incomes

23%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

18%

Social housing

33%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

56%

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

16,626 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

5,405

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.7 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Poptahof-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 50%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4550%
NL median 22%
45–6515%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,626 — 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 Poptahof-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Poptahof-Zuid comes out at 70 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Poptahof-Zuid 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 Poptahof-Zuid?

In Poptahof-Zuid the police recorded 211 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (70 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 Poptahof-Zuid calculated?

Poptahof-Zuid scores 6.0 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 Poptahof-Zuid 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.