neighbourhood in Westland
Pijletuinen
3,255 residents · postal code 2672 · Part of Naaldwijk, Westland
Everything for children close by, and little room
Pijletuinen scores well on almost everything and drops away sharply on one point: the quiet and nature pillar stalls at 3.2. That is not down to noise but to greenery. Within three hundred metres, less than a third of the surface is green, against a good half nationally, and the tree canopy does not even reach the national median.
The 8.8 for families needs a qualification the reader gets nowhere else. That pillar leans on school distance, and the primary school is three hundred metres away. The share of children under fifteen, by contrast, is well below the national middle, and the share of over-65s above it. The high score therefore describes a favourable location, not a neighbourhood full of schoolchildren.
Anyone depending on the railway lives in the wrong place: the nearest station is ten kilometres off. That distance counts for less than a fifth of the amenities score, and the rest is close by — which is why the pillar still comes out above average.
- no. 2,514 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 18 of 73 in Westland
How Pijletuinen scores
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Is Pijletuinen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Pijletuinen comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Pijletuinen 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, 60 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 Pijletuinen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,788 — 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 Pijletuinen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Pijletuinen comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Pijletuinen 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 Pijletuinen?
In Pijletuinen the police recorded 60 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Pijletuinen calculated?
Pijletuinen scores 8.6 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 Pijletuinen 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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