neighbourhood in Nieuwkoop
Bovenland
55 residents · postal code 2461 · Part of Kern Ter Aar, Nieuwkoop
Everything for children close by, and little room
Bovenland has fifty-five residents, and that makes every figure on this page fragile. Amenities and wealth & income have no score here, so the overall figure rests on three pillars — a fact that weighs more than any of the outcomes.
The families pillar stands at 10.0, exceptionally high: more than half of households have children and a quarter of residents are under fifteen, both far above the national picture. Quiet & nature lags at 5.1, and that comes mainly from noise: levels here are well above the national median, which is striking for a neighbourhood with fewer than two hundred residents per square kilometre. The number of reported offences is just above the median, but at these counts that means a handful of cases.
- no. 332 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 28 in Nieuwkoop
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Bovenland scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Wealth & income
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 Bovenland a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bovenland comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 6 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Nieuwkoop →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Nieuwkoop →
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
Bovenland has strikingly many children under 15: 25%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1525%
NL median 14%
- 15–25–Not enough data
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
Not enough dataNot enough data
NL median 31%
Households with children
55% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
185 — 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 Bovenland a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bovenland comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bovenland?
In Bovenland the police recorded 6 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Bovenland calculated?
Bovenland scores 9.8 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 Bovenland 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.
The best and lowest-scoring neighbourhoods of Nieuwkoop
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Nieuwkoop.
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