neighbourhood in Gouda
De Korte Akkeren Oud
5,895 residents · postal code 2802 · Part of De Korte Akkeren, Gouda
Everything close by, little space
Anyone who reads De Korte Akkeren Oud in Gouda as an ordinary city neighbourhood with a lot of theft reads it wrong. Property crime here is actually below the national middle; what drags the safety score of 3.9 down is violence — almost double the Dutch line — together with vandalism. And violence is the component that counts heaviest in that pillar.
Set against that is a 9.7 for amenities, a place in the national top: supermarket, GP, restaurant and station all lie close together. The families score of 8.9 goes with it, with a primary school close by and children in one in three households. The wealth pillar forms the counterweight with a 3.7, in which social assistance use at a good four times the national level does the most damage.
- no. 8,080 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 33 of 46 in Gouda
How De Korte Akkeren Oud scores
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Is De Korte Akkeren Oud a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Korte Akkeren Oud comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 220 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 Korte Akkeren Oud has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,694 — 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 Oud a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Korte Akkeren Oud comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Korte Akkeren Oud?
In De Korte Akkeren Oud the police recorded 220 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Oud calculated?
De Korte Akkeren Oud scores 5.4 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 De Korte Akkeren Oud 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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