neighbourhood in Westland

V/d kasteelewijk

1,905 residents · postal code 2691 · Part of 's-Gravenzande, Westland

Top 25% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

With a 9.7 for families and a 9.2 for amenities, V/d kasteelewijk is among the best-served residential areas in the country: school at three hundred metres, shop and GP at four hundred. That is the gain from dense building.

The loss sits right beside it in a 2.6 for quiet & nature. At more than nine thousand residents per square kilometre there is little greenery around, no water and more noise than the national norm. The same spatial choice therefore produces both the highest and the lowest figure in this neighbourhood.

The 6.4 for safety calls for precision. Violence and theft are below the national middle, but vandalism is reported almost twice as often as average here and burglary somewhat more often. Vandalism is the lightest category in the pillar, so the figure could have been lower; even so, there is more of it visible in public space than elsewhere.

no. 3,217 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 25 of 73 in Westland

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Is V/d kasteelewijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, V/d kasteelewijk comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

20.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

5.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

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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Amenities

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

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

13.7 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

0.9 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

0.9 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

€ 391,000

Welfare recipients

5.2 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

76%

Social housing

21%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

78%

Built after 2000

20%

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

9,241 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

29%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,459

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 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

0.3 km

Households with children

36%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

V/d kasteelewijk has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,241 — 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 V/d kasteelewijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, V/d kasteelewijk comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in V/d kasteelewijk?

In V/d kasteelewijk the police recorded 47 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 V/d kasteelewijk calculated?

V/d kasteelewijk scores 8.2 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 V/d kasteelewijk 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.