neighbourhood in Gouda
Vreewijk
1,240 residents · postal code 2806 · Part of Kort Haarlem, Gouda
Good for children, with a safety question
Vreewijk is among the hundred highest-scoring neighbourhoods for families in the Netherlands, and that is almost entirely distance: primary school, supermarket and GP are all within half a kilometre. There are also more children than average, but the distances do most of the work in that pillar.
The safety score of 3.6 points elsewhere. Violence here is more than one and a half times the national median, residential burglary almost three times — and precisely those two together make up nearly sixty per cent of the pillar. Property crime stays below it, which means the low score does not come from theft.
Wealth & income stalls at a 3.7. The property value is below the national median and the number of social assistance payments far above it; with just over twelve hundred residents this concerns a small number of households, but the gap is too large to put down to chance.
- no. 4,269 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 19 of 46 in Gouda
How Vreewijk scores
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Is Vreewijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vreewijk 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, 48 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
Vreewijk has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,078 — 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 Vreewijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vreewijk 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 Vreewijk?
In Vreewijk the police recorded 48 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 Vreewijk calculated?
Vreewijk scores 7.6 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 Vreewijk 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Gouda.
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