neighbourhood in Westland
Vliettuinen
3,500 residents · postal code 2291 · Part of Wateringen, Westland
Well-off, but not spacious
Vliettuinen scores 8.5 for wealth & income and 2.8 for quiet & nature, and those two belong together. This is a densely built residential area where almost four in ten homes went up after 2000: greenery within three hundred metres does not even reach two thirds of the national middle, the tree canopy stays well below the median, and open water is entirely absent. The space has gone into houses.
What you get in return is in the income figures. The property value is well above the national middle, the highest income group clearly broader than nationally, the lowest thinner, and social assistance and vacancy are rare.
One offence type departs from the otherwise favourable picture: burglary is three times the national median, while violence, property crime and vandalism all three stay below it. At this population size those are real differences, not chance.
- no. 2,760 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 20 of 73 in Westland
How Vliettuinen scores
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Is Vliettuinen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vliettuinen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vliettuinen 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, 58 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
Vliettuinen has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,169 — 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 Vliettuinen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vliettuinen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vliettuinen 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 Vliettuinen?
In Vliettuinen the police recorded 58 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Vliettuinen calculated?
Vliettuinen scores 8.4 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 Vliettuinen 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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