neighbourhood in Westland
Kleine Geest en Molenwijk
3,315 residents · postal code 2681 · Part of Monster, Westland
Safe, but not spacious
Kleine Geest en Molenwijk is among the safest neighbourhoods in the Netherlands at 9.8, and that figure holds firm: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism all four sit below the national median, burglary at a fraction of it. At the same time the quiet & nature pillar gets no further than 3.0, and the two belong together. Quiet & nature measures no crime but density, noise, greenery, tree canopy and water — and here the building is dense with a tree canopy of roughly half the national middle.
The railway station is almost twelve kilometres away and still the amenities pillar reaches 7.8. That is because the everyday things are close: supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within a kilometre. The station weighs less in that pillar than the first two combined.
The wealth & income figures sit close to the national middle, with little social assistance as the most favourable outlier.
- no. 1,669 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 73 in Westland
How Kleine Geest en Molenwijk scores
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Is Kleine Geest en Molenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kleine Geest en Molenwijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kleine Geest en Molenwijk 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, 47 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 Kleine Geest en Molenwijk looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,894 — 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 Kleine Geest en Molenwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kleine Geest en Molenwijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kleine Geest en Molenwijk 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 Kleine Geest en Molenwijk?
In Kleine Geest en Molenwijk the police recorded 47 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 Kleine Geest en Molenwijk calculated?
Kleine Geest en Molenwijk 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 Kleine Geest en Molenwijk 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Westland.
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