neighbourhood in Katwijk
Midden
3,445 residents · postal code 2225 · Part of Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk
Everything for children close by, and little room
Midden in Katwijk aan Zee has a density of more than twelve thousand residents per square kilometre, and you can see it in what is missing. Within three hundred metres there is less than half the national middle in greenery and the tree canopy covers about half of it. Noise levels actually stay below the median — it is the building, not the racket, that sets the quiet & nature pillar at 2.6.
Against that stands a 9.8 for families. The primary school is three hundred metres away, four in ten households have children and almost a fifth of residents are under fifteen. Rarely do distance and age profile coincide as closely as they do here.
The number of reported offences is below the national middle, but the picture is not even: violence is above it. The lower total comes mainly from property crime and vandalism.
- no. 3,533 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 37 in Katwijk
How Midden scores
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Is Midden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Midden 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, 83 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
Midden has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,251 — 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 Midden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Midden 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 Midden?
In Midden the police recorded 83 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 Midden calculated?
Midden scores 8.0 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 Midden 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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