neighbourhood in Voorne aan Zee
Hout Hoeffe
2,695 residents · postal code 3225 · Part of De Kooistee, Voorne aan Zee
Good for children, with a safety question
Twenty-eight kilometres to the nearest railway station: Hout Hoeffe is a long way from the tracks in that respect, and that pushes the amenities score down to 5.9 while the GP, supermarket and primary school are all within a kilometre.
The wealth & income pillar sticks at 4.2, but that figure does not come from the incomes. The share of high incomes here is slightly above the national middle and the share of low incomes lands exactly on it; what pulls the pillar down is property value, which stays well below the Dutch median and on its own makes up nearly forty per cent of the weighting. The social assistance rate is more than three times the national level. Among the offences, violence stands out: it runs almost three times the national middle, as does criminal damage, while property crime stays below it.
- no. 9,194 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 47 of 67 in Voorne aan Zee
How Hout Hoeffe scores
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Is Hout Hoeffe a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hout Hoeffe comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 98 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
Hout Hoeffe has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,048 — 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 Hout Hoeffe a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hout Hoeffe comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Hout Hoeffe?
In Hout Hoeffe the police recorded 98 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Hout Hoeffe calculated?
Hout Hoeffe scores 4.7 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 Hout Hoeffe 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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