neighbourhood in Maassluis
Het Balkon
2,335 residents · postal code 3144 · Part of Kapelpolder, Maassluis
Safe, but not spacious
On paper the 4.3 for quiet & nature in Het Balkon looks like an error, because the noise level here is well below the Dutch median and nearly half the neighbourhood's surface is water. That pillar also weighs greenery and tree canopy, though, and on both this neighbourhood scores far below the national middle. Quiet does not mean green here.
The 9.8 for safety is straightforward: all four categories of offence stay below the median, burglary almost at zero. Together with an 8.6 for wealth & income, carried by property values well above the median and hardly any social assistance, that produces one of the highest overall scores in this size class.
The price is in the distances. The primary school is a kilometre and a half away and the nearest station thirteen; everything here was built after 2000, but not beside a railway.
- no. 1,154 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 18 in Maassluis
How Het Balkon scores
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Is Het Balkon a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Balkon comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Balkon is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 25 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
Het Balkon has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,868 — 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 Het Balkon a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Balkon comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Balkon is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Het Balkon?
In Het Balkon the police recorded 25 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Het Balkon calculated?
Het Balkon scores 9.3 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 Het Balkon 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 Maassluis.
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