neighbourhood in Voorne aan Zee
Wittens Hoeck
1,965 residents · postal code 3224 · Part of De Struyten, Voorne aan Zee
Everything for children close by, and little room
Nine in ten homes in Wittens Hoeck are owner-occupied, and yet the wealth & income pillar gets no further than 5.8. That is because ownership is only a small component of the pillar; property value weighs far more, and here it is a good hundred thousand euros below the national median.
The 5.6 for safety is striking for a place with so few reported offences in total. The explanation lies in the type: violence is above the national median and burglary almost twice above it, while property crime stays far below.
The families pillar reaches 7.7 with a primary school nearby and many households with children. What is missing is the railway: the nearest station is almost thirty kilometres away.
- no. 7,005 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 31 of 67 in Voorne aan Zee
How Wittens Hoeck scores
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Is Wittens Hoeck a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wittens Hoeck comes out at 18 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, 39 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
Wittens Hoeck 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%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,113 — 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 Wittens Hoeck a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wittens Hoeck comes out at 18 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 Wittens Hoeck?
In Wittens Hoeck the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Wittens Hoeck calculated?
Wittens Hoeck scores 6.0 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 Wittens Hoeck 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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