neighbourhood in Nieuwkoop
De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen
95 residents · postal code 2421 · Part of Kern De Meije, Nieuwkoop
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
Two of the five pillars have no score here: both amenities and wealth & income are missing for De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen, so the overall figure rests on three. With ninety-five residents, that is the first thing a reader needs to know before looking at the numbers.
Quiet & nature lands on 9.4, and it is earned: more than four fifths of the surface within three hundred metres is green and noise levels are below the national median. With that comes the flip side that puts the families pillar at 3.0. And the crime figure, which is above the national median, says little at this population size: a handful of registrations add up here to a rate per thousand residents that would not look out of place in a large city.
- no. 10,746 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 28 of 28 in Nieuwkoop
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen 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 De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen comes out at 27 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, 3 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 ⌄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
De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen has strikingly few children under 15: 9%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6536%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
21 — 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 De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen comes out at 27 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 De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen?
In De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen the police recorded 3 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen calculated?
De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen scores 3.8 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 De Meije Nieuwkoopse Plassen 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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