neighbourhood in Westland

Het Nieuwe water

2,645 residents · postal code 2693 · Part of 's-Gravenzande, Westland

Top 13% in the Netherlands

Well-off, but not spacious

Sixty per cent of households in Het Nieuwe water have children and the share of young residents is far above the national picture. That the families pillar still sticks at 7.4 is down to distance: the primary school is over one and a half kilometres away, the heaviest component of the score.

The same distance returns in the 4.5 for amenities. The supermarket and GP are both more than two kilometres off and the railway station thirteen. Almost all of the housing stock dates from after the turn of the century.

Wealth & income stands opposite at 9.8: property values well above the national median, no meaningful social assistance, hardly any vacancy and a narrow bottom income group. Not one component contradicts it.

no. 1,688 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 12 of 73 in Westland

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Is Het Nieuwe water a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Nieuwe water comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Nieuwe water 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.

Total crime

12.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

3.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 34 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

2.0 km

GP practice

2.2 km

Train station

13.4 km

Restaurant

1.7 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

2.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 596,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

36%

Low incomes

26%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

80%

Social housing

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

85%

Built after 2000

94%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

4,100 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,036

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.6 km

Households with children

60%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

2.2 km

Residents under 15

27%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Het Nieuwe water has strikingly many children under 15: 27%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1527%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4538%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+4%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
60% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,100 — 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 Het Nieuwe water a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Het Nieuwe water?

In Het Nieuwe water the police recorded 34 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Het Nieuwe water calculated?

Het Nieuwe water scores 9.0 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 Het Nieuwe water 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.