neighbourhood in Westland
Bleyenburg
3,820 residents · postal code 2678 · Part of De Lier, Westland
Safe, but not spacious
A 2.7 for quiet & nature with no noise involved: sound levels in Bleyenburg sit exactly at the Dutch median. What drags the pillar down is everything that is absent. Under a quarter of the surroundings within three hundred metres is green, the canopy covers a good half less than nationally, there is no open water, and building density is high. Four of the five components point the same way.
The safety pillar is its mirror image and ranks with a 9.9 among the highest in the country. All four types of offence sit below the Dutch median, violence at about a third and theft at a quarter of it. The total of reported offences is less than half what is usual nationally.
The wealth & income pillar is strikingly average: property value practically at the Dutch median, both income groups there too, and only social assistance above it. The 5.7 is therefore not a weak figure but a nationally ordinary one, in a neighbourhood that otherwise scores anything but ordinary.
- no. 1,073 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 73 in Westland
How Bleyenburg scores
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Is Bleyenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bleyenburg comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Bleyenburg is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 36 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 Bleyenburg looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,892 — 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 Bleyenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bleyenburg comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Bleyenburg is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bleyenburg?
In Bleyenburg the police recorded 36 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Bleyenburg calculated?
Bleyenburg scores 9.4 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 Bleyenburg 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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