neighbourhood in Geertruidenberg
Hooipolder en De Hoeven
5,615 residents · postal code 4942 · Part of Raamsdonksveer, Geertruidenberg
School close by, shops further off
At Hooipolder en De Hoeven the income distribution lies almost exactly on the national one: as many high incomes as average, slightly fewer low ones, and almost nothing stands vacant. That the wealth score still gets no further than a 5.5 is entirely down to the property value, which stays below the national middle — the component that counts most heavily in that pillar determines the outcome here on its own.
Amenities drops to a 5.4 for a reason that has little to do with the neighbourhood itself: the nearest railway station is seventeen kilometres away, while supermarket and GP are close by. The offence figure is low across the board — violence, property crime and vandalism all three stay below the national median, only burglary lies narrowly above it. And the 9.1 for families is one of the real kind: almost four in ten households have children and the primary school is nearby.
- no. 4,500 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 8 in Geertruidenberg
How Hooipolder en De Hoeven scores
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Is Hooipolder en De Hoeven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hooipolder en De Hoeven comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Hooipolder en De Hoeven 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, 95 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 Hooipolder en De Hoeven looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,100 — 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 Hooipolder en De Hoeven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hooipolder en De Hoeven comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Hooipolder en De Hoeven 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 Hooipolder en De Hoeven?
In Hooipolder en De Hoeven the police recorded 95 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Hooipolder en De Hoeven calculated?
Hooipolder en De Hoeven scores 7.4 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 Hooipolder en De Hoeven 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Geertruidenberg
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Geertruidenberg.
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