neighbourhood in Westland
Ter Heijde
750 residents · postal code 2684 · Part of Ter Heijde, Westland
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
One in five homes in Ter Heijde is owner-occupied, and the rest of the wealth picture matches: the lowest income group covers almost half of households, the highest a tenth, and the rate of social assistance is more than three times the national level. That is where the 3.4 comes from, and it is earned across the board.
The 8.3 for families stands apart from that and has a concrete cause: the primary school is six hundred metres away and relatively many children live here. A low wealth score and a high families score do not exclude each other; they measure entirely different things.
With the 3.6 for quiet & nature, noise is not the problem — it is far below the national median. It lies in the density and in the tree canopy, which is virtually absent here. Reported offences, meanwhile, sit on the national middle, with all four types below it or exactly on it.
- no. 9,341 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 59 of 73 in Westland
How Ter Heijde scores
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Is Ter Heijde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ter Heijde comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 19 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
Ter Heijde has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,289 — 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 Ter Heijde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ter Heijde comes out at 23 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 Ter Heijde?
In Ter Heijde the police recorded 19 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Ter Heijde calculated?
Ter Heijde scores 4.6 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 Ter Heijde 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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