neighbourhood in Westland
Vreeburgh
2,255 residents · postal code 2694 · Part of 's-Gravenzande, Westland
Everything for children close by, and little room
Vreeburgh earns a 9.9 for families and a 9.1 for safety, yet the quiet & nature pillar stops at a 3.3. That is not down to noise: the noise level here sits exactly on the national median. It is down to the ground. Within three hundred metres under a quarter of the surface is green and tree canopy covers under three per cent of it, against almost nine nationally. With more than nine thousand residents per square kilometre this is built up solidly.
What stands here is also new: more than four in five homes date from after the turn of the century, and the household picture matches. Almost half of households have children, against roughly a quarter made up of one person.
The station is the notable absentee, more than thirteen kilometres away. Every other amenity is within seven hundred metres, which explains why the amenities pillar stops at a 7.9 and gets no higher.
- no. 347 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 73 in Westland
How Vreeburgh scores
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Is Vreeburgh a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vreeburgh comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vreeburgh 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, 31 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
Vreeburgh has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,258 — 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 Vreeburgh a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vreeburgh comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vreeburgh 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 Vreeburgh?
In Vreeburgh the police recorded 31 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 Vreeburgh calculated?
Vreeburgh scores 9.8 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 Vreeburgh 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Westland.
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