neighbourhood in Westland

Poeldijk Noord

2,765 residents · postal code 2685 · Part of Poeldijk, Westland

Bottom 44% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Poeldijk Noord scores a 2.6 for quiet & nature, and that comes almost entirely from the surroundings rather than from noise. The greenery around the built-up area is half the national middle, tree canopy not even half of that again, and surface water is absent. On top of that comes a building density of more than nine thousand residents per square kilometre.

At the same time this is a neighbourhood full of young households: more than four in ten households have children and the primary school is five hundred metres away, which together produces the 9.8 for families. Those two figures side by side — this neighbourhood's highest and lowest — describe a compactly built residential centre without much space around it.

Wealth & income stays at a 4.2. Property value sits below the Dutch middle, high incomes are thinly spread and the social assistance rate is more than four times the median; only vacancy is low. Among offences, violence and vandalism sit above the national middle while theft and burglary stay below.

no. 7,397 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 52 of 73 in Westland

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Is Poeldijk Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Poeldijk Noord comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

23.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

6.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 79 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

8.5 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

4.8 km

Café

3.4 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

0.4 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

€ 371,000

Welfare recipients

36.2 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

50%

Social housing

47%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

79%

Built after 2000

10%

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

9,365 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

26%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,122

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.9 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

0.5 km

Households with children

43%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Poeldijk Noord has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,365 — 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 Poeldijk Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Poeldijk Noord comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Poeldijk Noord?

In Poeldijk Noord the police recorded 79 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Poeldijk Noord calculated?

Poeldijk Noord scores 5.8 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 Poeldijk Noord 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.