neighbourhood in Gouda

De Korte Akkeren Nieuw

2,940 residents · postal code 2802 · Part of De Korte Akkeren, Gouda

Bottom 47% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

The crime picture in De Korte Akkeren Nieuw is almost exactly average, and that is rarer than it sounds. Violence sits exactly on the national median, burglary too, property offences below. Only criminal damage stands out, at more than one and a half times the national level. Hence a 6.0 for safety in a Gouda neighbourhood you see scoring low on other components.

Because that is where the tension lies: a 9.4 for amenities beside a 3.1 for wealth & income. The first is a matter of short distances — supermarket, GP, school and restaurant all lie within six hundred metres. The second has no bright spot at all: property values are far below the national median, higher incomes are scarce, lower ones in the majority, and the social assistance rate is a multiple of the national one.

The 8.9 for families follows from that same short school distance.

no. 6,949 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 27 of 46 in Gouda

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Is De Korte Akkeren Nieuw a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, De Korte Akkeren Nieuw comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

25.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

6.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 87 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.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

2.1 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.7 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.8 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

€ 271,000

Welfare recipients

51.0 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

49%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

41%

Social housing

48%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

55%

Built after 2000

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

7,340 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

37%

Trees nearby

Water share

15%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,025

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.4 km

Households with children

33%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.8 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of De Korte Akkeren Nieuw looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,340 — 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 De Korte Akkeren Nieuw a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, De Korte Akkeren Nieuw comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in De Korte Akkeren Nieuw?

In De Korte Akkeren Nieuw the police recorded 87 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Korte Akkeren Nieuw calculated?

De Korte Akkeren Nieuw scores 6.0 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 Korte Akkeren Nieuw 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.