neighbourhood in Uitgeest
Waldijk
2,330 residents · postal code 1911 · Part of Uitgeest, Uitgeest
Everything for children close by, and little room
Six in ten households in Waldijk have children and fewer than one in twelve residents is 65 or over. That is an age structure rarely found in the Netherlands, and together with a primary school four hundred metres away it produces a 9.9 for families. Virtually the whole neighbourhood was built after 2000.
The 4.2 for quiet & nature is out of step with that, and it is not down to a lack of greenery: the share of green within three hundred metres is above the Dutch median. Noise is the weak spot, running well above the national middle, and the tree canopy is thin.
The rest of the picture is unambiguous. Property value well above the median, hardly any social assistance, little vacancy, and an offence rate far below the Dutch middle. Hence an overall 9.9.
- no. 234 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 6 in Uitgeest
How Waldijk scores
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Is Waldijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waldijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waldijk 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, 33 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
Waldijk has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 8%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
16% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
60% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,242 — 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 Waldijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waldijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waldijk 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 Waldijk?
In Waldijk the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Waldijk calculated?
Waldijk scores 9.9 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 Waldijk 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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