neighbourhood in Dijk en Waard

Broekhorn

1,895 residents · postal code 1704 · Part of Broekhorn, Dijk en Waard

Top 11% in the Netherlands

Well-off, but not spacious

Broekhorn was built almost entirely after the turn of the century and it shows in every figure. The wealth & income pillar stands at 10.0: property value is a good one and a half times above the national median, no social assistance is recorded and the share of low incomes stays well under the national picture.

Even so, the families pillar gets no further than 6.6, while six in ten households here have children. The explanation is distance: the primary school is a good two kilometres away, and school distance weighs more in this pillar than the share of children. That is the kind of shortfall you only notice once you live there.

The quiet & nature pillar lags at 4.6, and that comes from noise: levels here are a good seven decibels above the national median.

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no. 8 of 58 in Dijk en Waard

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Is Broekhorn a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Broekhorn comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

21.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

6.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 50 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

2.0 km

GP practice

1.7 km

Train station

1.5 km

Restaurant

1.4 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

1.5 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

0.9 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

€ 666,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

37%

Low incomes

25%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

98%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

99%

Built after 2000

96%

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

2,490 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

Water share

12%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

872

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.4 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

2.1 km

Households with children

61%

Childcare

1.5 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

25%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Broekhorn has strikingly many children under 15: 25%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1525%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
3.1 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
61% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,490 — around the 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 Broekhorn a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Broekhorn comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Broekhorn?

In Broekhorn the police recorded 50 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Broekhorn calculated?

Broekhorn scores 9.2 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 Broekhorn 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.