neighbourhood in Den Helder
Vogelbuurt
1,860 residents · postal code 1781 · Part of Stad binnen de Linie-Oost, Den Helder
Everything close by, little space
Vandalism in Vogelbuurt occurs more than three times as often as in the median Dutch neighbourhood and property crime twice as often, while violence stays far below. That is the profile of a neighbourhood where things happen to belongings and to public space, not one where you would rather stay indoors at night, and it explains why the safety pillar holds at 6.2 despite a hefty crime total.
The 4.1 for wealth & income is only partly the story you would expect. Property values are indeed far below the national median and that is the heaviest component, but the share of low incomes is below the median too and social assistance only just above it. This is mainly a property figure.
Against that stands a 9.5 for families. The primary school is three hundred metres away, more than a third of households have children, and virtually every home is single-family.
- no. 4,988 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 55 in Den Helder
How Vogelbuurt scores
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Is Vogelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelbuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vogelbuurt 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.
In 2025, 100 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 Vogelbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,234 — 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 Vogelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelbuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vogelbuurt 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 Vogelbuurt?
In Vogelbuurt the police recorded 100 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 Vogelbuurt calculated?
Vogelbuurt scores 7.1 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 Vogelbuurt 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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