neighbourhood in Texel
Den Hoorn
415 residents · postal code 1797 · Part of Het Oude Land en duingebied, Texel
Safe, but few children
Den Hoorn has a supermarket around the corner and a school more than five kilometres away — a combination you rarely see. The families pillar drops to a 2.5 as a result, and that is almost entirely distance: with the GP also far off, only the daily shopping stays close by.
Four in ten residents are 65 or over. Noise levels here are far below the national median, at a value you hardly encounter anywhere in the Netherlands, and together with plenty of greenery that produces a 7.6 for quiet & nature. The 5.1 for wealth & income is pushed down by a vacancy rate three times the national figure and heavy use of social assistance, while property value is in fact above the median.
- no. 9,577 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 13 in Texel
How Den Hoorn scores
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Is Den Hoorn a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Den Hoorn comes out at 19 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, 7 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
Den Hoorn has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4516%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+41%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
528 — 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 Den Hoorn a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Den Hoorn comes out at 19 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 Den Hoorn?
In Den Hoorn the police recorded 7 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Den Hoorn calculated?
Den Hoorn scores 4.5 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 Den Hoorn 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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