neighbourhood in Pijnacker-Nootdorp
Emerald Centrum
3,015 residents · postal code 2645 · Part of Delfgauw, Pijnacker-Nootdorp
Everything for children close by, and little room
The crime figure for Emerald Centrum sits below the national median, but that total hides a lopsided split. Violence, burglary and vandalism all stay below the median; only property offences are above it, and they account for more than half of all reports. That is the profile of a neighbourhood where things go missing, not one where the trouble is out on the street after dark.
Against that stands the weakest pillar: a 3.8 for quiet & nature. There is no water at all here and greenery within three hundred metres stays just below the national median, while every square kilometre holds more than seven thousand people. Noise is barely a factor, since it is close to the national median. This pillar falls short on space, not on volume.
The wealth & income pillar runs the other way, and does so across the board: property value above the median, a larger top income group, a smaller bottom one, social assistance below the national level and almost no vacancy.
- no. 1,602 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 31 in Pijnacker-Nootdorp
How Emerald Centrum scores
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Is Emerald Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emerald Centrum comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 77 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
Emerald Centrum has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,622 — 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 Emerald Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emerald Centrum comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Emerald Centrum?
In Emerald Centrum the police recorded 77 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Emerald Centrum calculated?
Emerald Centrum scores 9.1 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 Emerald 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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