neighbourhood in Vlaardingen
Drevenbuurt
3,490 residents · postal code 3137 · Part of Holy Noord, Vlaardingen
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Every home in the Drevenbuurt is single-family and virtually every one is owner-occupied, while not one dates from after 2000. That stability shows in the figures: the CBS registers not a single social assistance benefit here, the highest income group is more than one and a half times as broad as nationally, and vacancy is minimal.
The price is in the amenities pillar, which at 4.7 is the weakest figure. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are all three further away than in most Dutch neighbourhoods, and the station nearly seven kilometres off. Only the primary school is close, and that holds the families pillar up at 8.3 while more than a quarter of residents are 65 or older.
Violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism all four stay below the national middle, most of them well below. That is how a neighbourhood arrives at a 9.7 for safety.
- no. 1,044 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 31 in Vlaardingen
How Drevenbuurt scores
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Is Drevenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Drevenbuurt comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Drevenbuurt 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, 51 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
The age profile of Drevenbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,941 — 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 Drevenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Drevenbuurt comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Drevenbuurt 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 Drevenbuurt?
In Drevenbuurt the police recorded 51 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 Drevenbuurt calculated?
Drevenbuurt 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 Drevenbuurt 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 Vlaardingen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Vlaardingen.
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