neighbourhood in Voorschoten
Vlietwijk
3,715 residents · postal code 2251 · Part of Wijk 00, Voorschoten
Everything close by, little to spend
Vlietwijk shows how far apart two pillars can run within the same neighbourhood. Amenities stand at 9.1 — the GP, a restaurant and the supermarket within half a kilometre, the station at two and a half — while wealth & income sticks at 4.2.
That low score comes from four directions at once: property values below the national median, a top income group narrower than nationally, a broader bottom one, and social assistance almost five times above the middle. Only vacancy is not part of it.
Safety lands at 6.0 with a crime total below the median. Violence and vandalism are above the national level, burglary exactly on it and property crime below — a mixed picture that in Voorschoten works out to just under the national average.
- no. 4,671 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 12 in Voorschoten
How Vlietwijk scores
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Is Vlietwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vlietwijk comes out at 20 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, 92 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 Vlietwijk looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,336 — 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 Vlietwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vlietwijk comes out at 20 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 Vlietwijk?
In Vlietwijk the police recorded 92 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Vlietwijk calculated?
Vlietwijk scores 7.3 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 Vlietwijk 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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