neighbourhood in Den Helder
Tuindorp-West
1,555 residents · postal code 1782 · Part of Stad binnen de Linie-West, Den Helder
Everything close by, little space
Property values in Tuindorp-West are around half the national median, and that is the component pulling the wealth & income pillar down to 3.3. Social assistance is four times above it, the share of low incomes above the median and the share of high incomes below — four components, none of which contradicts the others.
Amenities, on the other hand, are excellent. Supermarket, GP, restaurant and station are all within a kilometre, good for a 9.2. It is the combination you often see in older urban neighbourhoods: close to everything, little value in the bricks.
With safety, burglary is the outlier at more than twice the national middle; property crime is below it. What remains is quiet & nature, at 2.9 the lowest figure in the neighbourhood — little greenery, few trees and a density of almost eight thousand residents per square kilometre.
- no. 11,010 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 38 of 55 in Den Helder
How Tuindorp-West scores
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Is Tuindorp-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Tuindorp-West comes out at 30 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.
In 2025, 53 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
The age profile of Tuindorp-West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,980 — 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 Tuindorp-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Tuindorp-West comes out at 30 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 Tuindorp-West?
In Tuindorp-West the police recorded 53 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Tuindorp-West calculated?
Tuindorp-West scores 3.7 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 Tuindorp-West 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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