neighbourhood in Delft
Schoemakerplantage
1,765 residents · postal code 2628 · Part of Wippolder, Delft
Safe, but not spacious
Fewer than one in thirty residents of Schoemakerplantage are 65 or older, and more than half of households consist of one person. Even so there is a 6.0 for families: the primary school is more than a kilometre away, and within that pillar the distance weighs more than the share of children.
The 9.8 for safety rests on all four offence types. Violence, residential burglary, property crime and vandalism each sit below the national median, and that is rare for a neighbourhood this close to a city centre.
On wealth & income the heaviest component pulls against: the property value is below the national median, while incomes are well above it and social assistance is uncommon. The 6.5 is the outcome of that collision. The noise level, well above the median, meanwhile pushes the quiet & nature pillar down to a 5.1.
- no. 1,560 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 75 in Delft
How Schoemakerplantage scores
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Is Schoemakerplantage a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schoemakerplantage comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schoemakerplantage 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, 27 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
Schoemakerplantage has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 58%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4558%
NL median 22%
- 45–6511%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,901 — 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 Schoemakerplantage a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schoemakerplantage comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schoemakerplantage 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 Schoemakerplantage?
In Schoemakerplantage the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Schoemakerplantage calculated?
Schoemakerplantage scores 9.1 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 Schoemakerplantage 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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