neighbourhood in Pijnacker-Nootdorp
De Venen Centrum
3,200 residents · postal code 2631 · Part of Nootdorp, Pijnacker-Nootdorp
Safe, but not spacious
Almost everything in De Venen Centrum was built after 2000, and it shows in who lives there: a neighbourhood with strikingly many households with children and few older residents. The 9.0 for families follows from that only in part — the heaviest component of that pillar is the distance to school and childcare, and here it is short.
The 7.4 for wealth & income needs a qualification. Property value sits well above the national middle and so does the share of high incomes, but the rate of social assistance is more than double the median. Anyone judging by house prices alone misses that split within a single neighbourhood.
That the quiet & nature score stalls at 4.4 is not down to noise: the sound level is in fact below the national middle. It is density, together with greenery and tree canopy that both lag, that puts this new-build area in the lower half of the country.
- no. 1,080 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 31 in Pijnacker-Nootdorp
How De Venen Centrum scores
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Is De Venen Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Venen Centrum comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Venen Centrum 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, 56 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
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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
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Who lives here
De Venen Centrum has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
58% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,213 — 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 De Venen Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Venen Centrum comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Venen Centrum 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 De Venen Centrum?
In De Venen Centrum the police recorded 56 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 De Venen Centrum calculated?
De Venen Centrum scores 9.4 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 Venen Centrum 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 worst neighbourhoods of Pijnacker-Nootdorp
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Pijnacker-Nootdorp.
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