neighbourhood in Haarlemmermeer
Cruquius Cruquiushoeve
1,120 residents · postal code 2142 · Part of Cruquius, Haarlemmermeer
Well-off, and well out of town
In Cruquius Cruquiushoeve six in ten households have children — one of the highest shares you will find in the Netherlands — and yet the families score sticks at 5.1. The reason is distance: the primary school is three kilometres away, and that is the most heavily weighted component of the pillar. Anyone living here with school-age children covers that distance twice a day.
The housing stock is unusual as well. Everything is single-family and virtually everything was built after 2000, but fewer than four in ten homes are owner-occupied. That is a combination you rarely see, and it does not put the wealth & income pillar under pressure: property values are far above the national median, and so is the share of high incomes.
The rest of the picture is open country. More than two thirds of the surroundings are green, the crime rate is around the national middle with little burglary, and the supermarket and GP are almost three kilometres away.
- no. 3,848 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 27 of 93 in Haarlemmermeer
How Cruquius Cruquiushoeve scores
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Is Cruquius Cruquiushoeve a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Cruquius Cruquiushoeve 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.
In 2025, 33 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
Cruquius Cruquiushoeve has strikingly many children under 15: 24%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1524%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
16% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
60% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,665 — less 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 Cruquius Cruquiushoeve a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Cruquius Cruquiushoeve 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 Cruquius Cruquiushoeve?
In Cruquius Cruquiushoeve the police recorded 33 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 Cruquius Cruquiushoeve calculated?
Cruquius Cruquiushoeve scores 7.8 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 Cruquius Cruquiushoeve 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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