neighbourhood in Vlaardingen

Hoofdstedenbuurt

2,245 residents · postal code 3137 · Part of Holy Noord, Vlaardingen

Bottom 44% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Eight per cent of Hoofdstedenbuurt's residents receive social assistance, ten times the national middle, and the share of high incomes comes to a quarter of the median. With property values at just over half the national middle and more than half of households on a low income, the 2.9 for wealth & income is no surprise. Only vacancy is low here.

Not one home is a single-family house and seven in a hundred are owner-occupied: this is an area of rented flats. Even so the families pillar reaches a 9.0, with the school five hundred metres away and the GP at three hundred — the distances are the insight here, not the population, since almost a third of residents are over 65.

The 6.9 for quiet & nature comes from trees and water, both well above the median, which is remarkable at twelve thousand residents per square kilometre. On safety it is mainly violence that runs above the national middle.

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no. 12 of 31 in Vlaardingen

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Is Hoofdstedenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoofdstedenbuurt comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

25.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

10.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 65 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.9 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

5.7 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

2.3 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 242,000

Welfare recipients

80.2 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

56%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

Social housing

93%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

12,044 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

55%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

10%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

3,199

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hoofdstedenbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+31%
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
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,044 — 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 Hoofdstedenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoofdstedenbuurt comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Hoofdstedenbuurt?

In Hoofdstedenbuurt the police recorded 65 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Hoofdstedenbuurt calculated?

Hoofdstedenbuurt scores 5.8 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 Hoofdstedenbuurt 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.