neighbourhood in Hardinxveld-Giessendam

BH west

1,830 residents · postal code 3372 · Part of Boven Hardinxveld, Hardinxveld-Giessendam

Bottom 48% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

In BH west the supermarket is three hundred metres away and the GP four kilometres. Such a gap between two amenities that both carry heavy weight is unusual, and it holds the pillar at a 6.8 — the daily shopping trip is short, the journey to care is not.

Safety is the strongest score at an 8.6, with all four offence types below the national median. Wealth & income, by contrast, lands on a 3.6: the property value stays far below the median, more than four in ten households fall into the lowest income group and the number of social assistance payments is four times the national level. Only the vacancy rate is low.

The 3.1 for quiet & nature comes from density and from what does not grow: the tree canopy within three hundred metres covers well over half less than nationally, and surface water is entirely absent from this neighbourhood.

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Is BH west a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, BH west comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: BH west is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

16.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

4.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 30 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

4.0 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

4.0 km

Hospital

7.4 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.5 km

Motorway ramp

3.3 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 300,000

Welfare recipients

32.8 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

48%

Social housing

50%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

75%

Built after 2000

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

7,773 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

51%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

599

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.6 km

Households with children

40%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

5.5 km

Residents under 15

21%

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Who lives here

BH west has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1521%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,773 — 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 BH west a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, BH west comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: BH west is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in BH west?

In BH west the police recorded 30 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 BH west calculated?

BH west scores 6.0 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 BH west 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.