neighbourhood in Gouda
Kort Haarlem
4,020 residents · postal code 2806 · Part of Kort Haarlem, Gouda
Good for children, with a safety question
The number of home burglaries in Kort Haarlem is six times the national median, while violence sits exactly on it. Because burglary carries more than a quarter of the safety pillar, that single figure almost single-handedly explains the 3.4 — and it makes the risk concrete: it is about houses, not the street.
Against that stands an 8.7 for families, carried by a primary school six hundred metres away and a third of households with children. Anyone living here with children has everything close by and would do well to take the back-door lock seriously. The 4.7 for wealth & income is not the score of an area without money: the share of high incomes is above the national median. What drags the pillar down are benefits, at more than three times the national level, alongside a property value below the median.
- no. 7,562 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 29 of 46 in Gouda
How Kort Haarlem scores
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Is Kort Haarlem a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kort Haarlem comes out at 35 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, 191 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 Kort Haarlem looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,683 — 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 Kort Haarlem a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kort Haarlem comes out at 35 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 Kort Haarlem?
In Kort Haarlem the police recorded 191 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (35 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 Kort Haarlem calculated?
Kort Haarlem scores 5.7 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 Kort Haarlem 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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