neighbourhood in Hoeksche Waard
Puttershoek Woonkern
7,455 residents · postal code 3297 · Part of Puttershoek, Hoeksche Waard
Safe streets, thinner wallets
The income distribution in Puttershoek Woonkern lies almost on the national pattern: the top and the bottom income group are as large as in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and there is little vacancy. The 5.2 for wealth therefore comes from somewhere else - from a property value below the Dutch middle and from a social assistance share that is double the national value.
Safety is the strongest point, with a 8.5. Violence, theft and vandalism are all three registered less often than nationally, burglary exactly as often, and the total comes out at two thirds of the Dutch value. What the neighbourhood costs is accessibility: the nearest railway station is almost twelve kilometres away, and that depresses the 6.0 for amenities while supermarket and GP are actually close by.
- no. 5,088 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 39 in Hoeksche Waard
How Puttershoek Woonkern scores
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Is Puttershoek Woonkern a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Puttershoek Woonkern comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Puttershoek Woonkern is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 148 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
The age profile of Puttershoek Woonkern looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,967 — 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 Puttershoek Woonkern a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Puttershoek Woonkern comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Puttershoek Woonkern 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 Puttershoek Woonkern?
In Puttershoek Woonkern the police recorded 148 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 Puttershoek Woonkern calculated?
Puttershoek Woonkern scores 7.1 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 Puttershoek Woonkern 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Hoeksche Waard
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hoeksche Waard.
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