neighbourhood in Voorne aan Zee
Rugge
2,780 residents · postal code 3232 · Part of Brielle, Voorne aan Zee
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
The nearest railway station is more than twenty-four kilometres from Rugge. That is a distance rare in the Netherlands, and it pushes amenities down to a 6.9 even though supermarket, school and restaurant are all around the corner. Anyone living here without a car depends on the bus.
Wealth calls for a closer reading than the 4.1 suggests. The income distribution barely differs from the national picture and vacancy is normal, but property value sits far below the Dutch middle and the social assistance rate is more than three times above it. Those two components carry the pillar, not the income of the average resident.
Among offences, vandalism deviates most: it sits above the national middle, while theft stays far below it. Violence and burglary are marginally above. The result is a 6.2 for safety with a total below the median — a neighbourhood where more gets broken than taken.
- no. 8,189 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 39 of 67 in Voorne aan Zee
How Rugge scores
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Is Rugge a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rugge comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 62 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 Rugge looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,786 — 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 Rugge a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rugge comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Rugge?
In Rugge the police recorded 62 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Rugge calculated?
Rugge scores 5.3 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 Rugge 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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