neighbourhood in Katwijk
Hoornes-West
3,215 residents · postal code 2221 · Part of Katwijk Noord, Katwijk
Everything close by, little to spend
Everything in Hoornes-West is around the corner — GP, supermarket, school and restaurant are all within half a kilometre — and that produces a 9.3 for amenities. It is the only pillar above the middle.
The safety score turns almost entirely on one type. Property crime here is more than double the national median, while violence barely deviates from it and burglary stays close. That is the picture of a place where things go missing, not of somewhere that goes wrong on the street at night — though vandalism is close to double the middle.
The wealth pillar is weak across its full width: low property value, few high incomes, many low ones, and a social assistance rate nearly five times the national median. Only vacancy stays far below it, and that weighs too lightly to shift anything.
- no. 8,696 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 33 of 37 in Katwijk
How Hoornes-West scores
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Is Hoornes-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoornes-West comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hoornes-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 159 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
Hoornes-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4533%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,015 — 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 Hoornes-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoornes-West comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hoornes-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Hoornes-West?
In Hoornes-West the police recorded 159 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Hoornes-West calculated?
Hoornes-West scores 5.0 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 Hoornes-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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Katwijk.
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