neighbourhood in Dijk en Waard
Huygenhoek Noord
2,765 residents · postal code 1705 · Part of Huygenhoek, Dijk en Waard
Everything for children close by, and little room
Only one in eleven residents of Huygenhoek Noord is sixty-five or older, and almost half of households have children. That is a markedly young composition, and together with the primary school five hundred metres away it produces a 9.3 for families — a score resting here on both the map and the population.
Quiet & nature comes out at a 4.8, and that is not down to noise, which sits below the Dutch median, but to greenery. Tree canopy right around the neighbourhood is half the national middle and the greenery itself is below it too, at a density of more than seven thousand residents per square kilometre. Water, by contrast, is plentiful.
A practical detail explaining the amenities score of 6.7: supermarket, GP and school are all within six hundred metres, but the nearest restaurant is more than two and a half kilometres away and the station almost four. Shopping here is walking, eating out is driving.
- no. 2,848 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 19 of 58 in Dijk en Waard
How Huygenhoek Noord scores
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Is Huygenhoek Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Huygenhoek Noord comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Huygenhoek Noord is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 51 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
Huygenhoek Noord has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 9%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
47% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,483 — 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 Huygenhoek Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Huygenhoek Noord comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Huygenhoek Noord is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Huygenhoek Noord?
In Huygenhoek Noord the police recorded 51 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Huygenhoek Noord calculated?
Huygenhoek Noord scores 8.4 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 Huygenhoek Noord 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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