neighbourhood in Noordwijk
Boechorst
1,900 residents · postal code 2201 · Part of Noordwijk Binnen, Noordwijk
Safe, but everything is a drive away
An overall score of 10.0 says little without asking where it comes from, and in Boechorst the answer is unusually broad. Four pillars stand high and the fifth, amenities, is the only one that falls back: supermarket and GP are about a kilometre away, the school right around the corner.
Safety is strong at 9.8 on all four components at once — violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are each below the national figure. And quiet & nature reaches 7.2 here despite more noise than usual, because the tree canopy covers almost twice the national figure and greenery within three hundred metres is well above the median. That this neighbourhood was built almost entirely after the turn of the century can be read from that green structure.
- no. 63 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 42 in Noordwijk
How Boechorst scores
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Is Boechorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boechorst comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Boechorst 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, 31 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
Boechorst has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,523 — 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 Boechorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boechorst comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Boechorst 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 Boechorst?
In Boechorst the police recorded 31 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Boechorst calculated?
Boechorst scores 10.0 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 Boechorst 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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