neighbourhood in Westland

Vogelwijk

1,870 residents · postal code 2675 · Part of Honselersdijk, Westland

Top 25% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

In Vogelwijk the rate of social assistance is more than three times the national level, and that is the component keeping the wealth & income pillar at a 4.7. Property values sit just below the national median and vacancy is low, so it is not that everything works against the neighbourhood; it is one heavy signal beside an otherwise ordinary picture.

The 9.1 for safety comes mainly from what does not happen: violence runs at half the national middle and burglary is all but absent. Only vandalism is slightly above it, and that is the lightest of the four categories.

Greenery is the weak spot of the living environment. Within three hundred metres there is well over half less of it than the national norm, while noise is below the median and close to a tenth of the surface is water. That combination produces a 4.4 for quiet & nature: quiet, but hard-surfaced.

no. 3,256 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 26 of 73 in Westland

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Is Vogelwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vogelwijk comes out at 22 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.

Total crime

22.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

6.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 51 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.

Supermarket

0.7 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

9.1 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

2.1 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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

€ 402,000

Welfare recipients

26.7 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

63%

Social housing

34%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

71%

Built after 2000

16%

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

6,460 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

28%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

874

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 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

36%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.4 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Vogelwijk looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+23%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,460 — 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 Vogelwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vogelwijk comes out at 22 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 Vogelwijk?

In Vogelwijk the police recorded 51 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Vogelwijk calculated?

Vogelwijk scores 8.1 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 Vogelwijk 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.