neighbourhood in Den Helder

Visbuurt

2,370 residents · postal code 1781 · Part of Stad binnen de Linie-Oost, Den Helder

Bottom 22% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Out of almost thirteen thousand Dutch neighbourhoods, Visbuurt ranks in the top twenty for amenities. Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within half a kilometre, the station nine hundred metres away. Anyone living here without a car misses nothing.

Set against that is a property value of less than half the national middle and a social assistance rate four times above it. Together those two carry more than half of the wealth & income pillar, and that fully explains the 3.0 — ownership and housing type play almost no part in it.

The 8.3 for families is a distance figure, not a population figure. The primary school is two hundred metres away, while the share of children sits exactly at the national level. That is the difference between a neighbourhood that is easy for families and one full of families; here the numbers say the first.

no. 10,244 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 31 of 55 in Den Helder

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Is Visbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Visbuurt comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Visbuurt 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.

Total crime

41.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

12.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 125 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

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 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

€ 184,000

Welfare recipients

33.8 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

66%

Social housing

15%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

86%

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

10,026 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

17%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,464

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.7 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

0.2 km

Households with children

27%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

3.0 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Visbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6531%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,026 — 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 Visbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Visbuurt comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Visbuurt 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 Visbuurt?

In Visbuurt the police recorded 125 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Visbuurt calculated?

Visbuurt scores 4.1 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 Visbuurt 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.