neighbourhood in Velsen
Tjotterbuurt
2,675 residents · postal code 1991 · Part of Velserbroek, Velsen
Everything for children close by, and little room
Tjotterbuurt reaches an overall score of 9.8 while the quiet & nature pillar stays at 4.3 — showing that a high total does not mean every component joins in. With more than ten thousand residents per square kilometre, a tree canopy below the national level and noise just above it, this is tightly built Velserbroek.
The other four pillars do carry the score jointly. All four types of offence are below the Dutch median. The wealth & income pillar is strong across its full width: property value well above the median, a wider top income group than nationally, a narrower bottom one, and both social assistance and vacancy below the middle. On families it is striking that almost half of households here have children and the primary school is three hundred metres away — a combination you do not find together in most neighbourhoods with a high families score.
- no. 351 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 60 in Velsen
How Tjotterbuurt scores
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Is Tjotterbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Tjotterbuurt comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Tjotterbuurt 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, 42 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
Tjotterbuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,020 — 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 Tjotterbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Tjotterbuurt comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Tjotterbuurt 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 Tjotterbuurt?
In Tjotterbuurt the police recorded 42 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 Tjotterbuurt calculated?
Tjotterbuurt scores 9.8 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 Tjotterbuurt 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Velsen.
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