neighbourhood in Hollands Kroon
Wieringerwaard (woonkern)
1,845 residents · postal code 1766 · Part of Wieringerwaard, Hollands Kroon
Safe, but everything is a drive away
The supermarket and the primary school in Wieringerwaard are seven hundred metres away, but the nearest GP is a good five kilometres off and the restaurant nearly four. That split is the whole story behind the 4.3 for amenities: the daily shop is taken care of, healthcare is not.
The safety pillar stands at 9.9 and that is not a matter of one category. Violence and burglary sit far below the national middle, property crime at less than half of it, vandalism under it. At almost two thousand residents that is a meaningful difference, not a fluke of small numbers.
Wealth & income and families both come out around the middle. The property value stays below the national median and the social assistance rate is twice above it, while the income distribution is close to the national picture: a narrower share of high incomes and a share of low incomes sitting exactly on the median.
- no. 5,263 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 67 in Hollands Kroon
How Wieringerwaard (woonkern) scores
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Is Wieringerwaard (woonkern) a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wieringerwaard (woonkern) comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wieringerwaard (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, 18 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 Wieringerwaard (woonkern) looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,715 — 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 Wieringerwaard (woonkern) a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wieringerwaard (woonkern) comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wieringerwaard (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 Wieringerwaard (woonkern)?
In Wieringerwaard (woonkern) the police recorded 18 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Wieringerwaard (woonkern) calculated?
Wieringerwaard (woonkern) scores 7.0 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 Wieringerwaard (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 Hollands Kroon
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hollands Kroon.
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