neighbourhood in Katwijk
Dorp
2,795 residents · postal code 2223 · Part of Katwijk aan den Rijn, Katwijk
Everything for children close by, and little room
A neighbourhood rarely gets a 9.8 overall without a weak spot, and Dorp has one: quiet & nature stalls at a 5.0. Traffic noise here is noticeably above the Dutch median and the share of greenery in the surroundings below it. This is a densely built centre, not open country.
Everything you need day to day is within a few hundred metres: supermarket, GP, restaurant and primary school. The railway station, by contrast, is more than six kilometres away, and the fact that the amenities score still comes out at a 9.0 shows how heavily those short walking distances count.
Among offences, one type shapes the picture. Theft sits slightly above the national middle and makes up most of the total, while violence and vandalism sit well below it and burglary lands exactly on the median. An 8.3 for safety in a neighbourhood where property disappears but violence is rare — that distinction is not visible in the score itself.
- no. 424 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 37 in Katwijk
How Dorp scores
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Is Dorp a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp comes out at 20 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, 70 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 Dorp looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,914 — 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 Dorp a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp comes out at 20 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 Dorp?
In Dorp the police recorded 70 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Dorp calculated?
Dorp scores 9.8 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 Dorp 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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