neighbourhood in Kaag en Braassem
Roelofarendsveen
5,200 residents · postal code 2371 · Part of Roelofarendsveen, Kaag en Braassem
Safe, but few children
Almost a third of the surface of Roelofarendsveen is water, and yet quiet gets no further than a 5.6. The greenery and above all the tree canopy around the homes stay far below the national level; quiet it certainly is. Water alone does not lift a figure like that.
More curious is that families comes out at the same figure in a neighbourhood where almost a fifth of residents are under fifteen and where many households have children. The explanation is the distance: the primary school is just over a kilometre away, and distance to school is by far the heaviest component of that pillar. The distances to childcare and secondary education count in it too, but do not appear in the table below.
The 9.7 for safety is what it appears to be. Violence and burglary are rare here and theft stays far below the national level.
- no. 1,426 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 25 in Kaag en Braassem
How Roelofarendsveen scores
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Is Roelofarendsveen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roelofarendsveen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Roelofarendsveen 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, 93 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
Roelofarendsveen has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,653 — 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 Roelofarendsveen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roelofarendsveen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Roelofarendsveen 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 Roelofarendsveen?
In Roelofarendsveen the police recorded 93 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Roelofarendsveen calculated?
Roelofarendsveen scores 9.2 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 Roelofarendsveen 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 Kaag en Braassem
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Kaag en Braassem.
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