neighbourhood in Lopik
Cabauw
770 residents · postal code 3411 · Part of Lopik, Benschop en Polsbroek, Lopik
School close by, shops further off
Sixteen kilometres to the nearest railway station — that is the distance pushing Cabauw's amenities pillar down to 3.4, together with a supermarket and a GP four kilometres away. Living here without a car means living far off.
And yet the families pillar reaches a 9.5. That looks contradictory but follows from how the two pillars are built: the primary school is three hundred metres away, and school distance weighs more in the families pillar than any other component. Supermarket and GP do not count towards it. Children walk to school here while the shopping takes a drive.
The 8.6 for quiet & nature is the other yield of this location. Traffic noise runs almost eight decibels below the national median and more than four in five square metres around the neighbourhood is green. Only the tree canopy is thin.
- no. 3,032 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 14 in Lopik
How Cabauw scores
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Is Cabauw a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Cabauw comes out at 18 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, 13 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 Cabauw looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
897 — far less 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 Cabauw a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Cabauw comes out at 18 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 Cabauw?
In Cabauw the police recorded 13 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Cabauw calculated?
Cabauw scores 8.3 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 Cabauw 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 Lopik.
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