neighbourhood in Delft

Westerkwartier

2,985 residents · postal code 2613 · Part of Hof van Delft, Delft

Bottom 26% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Westerkwartier has a 9.9 for amenities and a 2.7 for quiet & nature, and those two figures describe the same place. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are three hundred metres away or less; at the same time the green share in the surrounding area is far below the national median and the neighbourhood counts thirteen thousand residents to the square kilometre.

Six in ten households here consist of one person, and that is the most striking population figure in the neighbourhood. The wealth & income pillar stalls at 4.6, and that is a story with two sides: the top income group is larger than nationally, but so is the bottom one, and property value is below the national median.

Among the offences everything is above the national median except burglary. Violence comes out at more than double, and that is precisely the category that weighs most heavily in the safety pillar.

no. 9,702 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 49 of 75 in Delft

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Is Westerkwartier 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

42.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

17.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 185 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.7 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.1 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

€ 383,000

Welfare recipients

23.5 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

48%

Social housing

29%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

51%

Built after 2000

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

13,050 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

28%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

5,613

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.3 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

20%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Westerkwartier has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 22%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2522%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,050 — 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 Westerkwartier a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Westerkwartier comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Westerkwartier 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 Westerkwartier?

In Westerkwartier the police recorded 185 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Westerkwartier calculated?

Westerkwartier 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 Westerkwartier 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.