neighbourhood in Nieuwkoop
Aardam West
3,910 residents · postal code 2461 · Part of Kern Ter Aar, Nieuwkoop
Safe, but not spacious
The overall score for Aardam West rests on four pillars: there is no figure for amenities, and with it all distances to shop, GP, school and station are missing too. The income distribution and vacancy are absent from the data as well. Comparing this neighbourhood means comparing a narrower measurement than usual.
What is there points clearly to the safe side. Violence, burglary, theft and vandalism are all four below the national median, with a total well under the median. That produces a 9.0.
The 4.9 for quiet & nature is not about noise — the noise level is practically on the national median — but about the tree canopy, which stops at half the national level, and about the density of the building.
- no. 3,261 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 19 of 28 in Nieuwkoop
How Aardam West scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Aardam West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aardam West comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Aardam West 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, 79 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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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 Aardam West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,699 — 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 Aardam West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aardam West comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Aardam West 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 Aardam West?
In Aardam West the police recorded 79 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Aardam West calculated?
Aardam West scores 8.1 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 Aardam 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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