neighbourhood in Gouda
Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt
3,720 residents · postal code 2803 · Part of Bloemendaal, Gouda
Good for children, with a safety question
The number of recorded offences in the Windrooskwartier and Heesterbuurt is below the national median, and yet safety stands at 4.9. Burglary is the reason: it occurs three times as often here as nationally, and violence and vandalism are above the middle too. Only property crime pulls the total down.
Against that stands a 9.7 for families, one of the highest scores in the country. The supermarket, the GP and the primary school are all five hundred metres away, one in five residents is under fifteen and nearly four in ten households have children.
The wealth & income pillar hangs around the middle at 5.2: a top income group broader than nationally, but property values below the median and more vacancy than usual.
- no. 2,645 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 46 in Gouda
How Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt scores
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Is Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt comes out at 21 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, 91 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
Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,839 — 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 Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt comes out at 21 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 Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt?
In Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt the police recorded 91 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt calculated?
Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt scores 8.5 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 Windrooskwartier en Heesterbuurt 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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