neighbourhood in Gouda
De Eilanden
1,010 residents · postal code 2809 · Part of Westergouwe, Gouda
Well-off, and comfortable across the board
De Eilanden is among the fifty highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the country, and unlike many top scorers that rests on more than one pillar: safety and wealth & income both come out above 9.5, and none of the five drops below a 6.7.
The wealth components all point the same way — property value well above the national median, the highest income group almost three times as broad as nationally, the lowest much thinner, no social assistance and virtually no vacancy.
Where the score is lower than you might expect for a new development on the edge of Gouda is quiet & nature. A fifth of the neighbourhood's surface is water and that helps, but within three hundred metres the tree canopy covers only a fraction of the national level. Trees need time, and in a neighbourhood built entirely after 2000 that time has not yet passed.
- no. 34 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 46 in Gouda
How De Eilanden scores
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Is De Eilanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Eilanden comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 18 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
De Eilanden has strikingly many children under 15: 30%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1530%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4537%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
56% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,126 — less 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 De Eilanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Eilanden comes out at 18 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 De Eilanden?
In De Eilanden the police recorded 18 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 De Eilanden calculated?
De Eilanden scores 10.0 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 De Eilanden 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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