neighbourhood in Katwijk
Molenwijk
2,255 residents · postal code 2223 · Part of Katwijk aan den Rijn, Katwijk
Everything close by, little space
Just over three per cent of Molenwijk's residents receive social assistance, almost four times the national middle. The share of high incomes does not reach two thirds of the median and that of low incomes lies well above it; only vacancy is low here. That makes the 4.4 for wealth & income a figure about incomes rather than about the houses — property values sit just below the national middle.
The amenities are all the better for it. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are all three within six hundred metres, which yields a 9.0. The railway station, by contrast, is almost six kilometres away; this is the coast, where the line does not run.
For quiet & nature, a 3.8, what counts most is the shortage of trees: canopy covers well under half the usual share of the surface here, and greenery within three hundred metres stays below the median. One in three homes is owner-occupied and barely one in twenty-five dates from after the turn of the century.
- no. 8,016 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 31 of 37 in Katwijk
How Molenwijk scores
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Is Molenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenwijk comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 91 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 Molenwijk looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,078 — 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 Molenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenwijk comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Molenwijk?
In Molenwijk the police recorded 91 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Molenwijk calculated?
Molenwijk scores 5.4 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 Molenwijk 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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