neighbourhood in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
Volgerlanden-West
7,585 residents · postal code 3344 · Part of De Volgerlanden, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
Everything for children close by, and little room
Volgerlanden-West gets a 9.7 for families, and that figure does not rest on one component: the primary school is a few hundred metres away, half of households have children and more young children live here than in the average Dutch neighbourhood. All the components point the same way, and that rarely happens.
All the stranger, then, is the look of the 5.8 for safety, because the total of registered offences actually stays below the Dutch level. The difference sits in the weighting: violence and burglary together are good for almost six tenths of that pillar, and both occur here slightly more often than nationally, while theft sits clearly below. Anyone expecting self-evident quiet in a district built almost entirely after 2000 is mistaken: both the greenery in the surroundings and the crown area of the trees stay below the national level, and that produces a 3.9.
- no. 1,907 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 11 in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
How Volgerlanden-West scores
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Is Volgerlanden-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Volgerlanden-West comes out at 19 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, 187 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
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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
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Who lives here
Volgerlanden-West has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,942 — 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 Volgerlanden-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Volgerlanden-West comes out at 19 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 Volgerlanden-West?
In Volgerlanden-West the police recorded 187 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Volgerlanden-West calculated?
Volgerlanden-West scores 8.9 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 Volgerlanden-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.
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