neighbourhood in Westland
Woerdblok
3,205 residents · postal code 2673 · Part of Naaldwijk, Westland
Everything for children close by, and little room
Woerdblok is among the best-scoring neighbourhoods in the country, and the safety figures show why. All four offence types lie below the national median, violence at a fifth of it, and the total at about half of it.
The wealth pillar points the same way on every component: high property value, many high incomes, few low ones, a social assistance rate well below the median and practically no vacancy. Where most neighbourhoods have one component contradicting the rest, this one has none.
What stands against it is greenery. Less than a third of the surface within three hundred metres is green, against a good half nationally, and the tree canopy stays far below the middle — hence a quiet and nature score of 3.4 in a place where noise exposure is in fact below the median. The station, moreover, is almost twelve kilometres away.
- no. 561 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 73 in Westland
How Woerdblok scores
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Is Woerdblok a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Woerdblok comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Woerdblok 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, 43 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
Woerdblok has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,143 — 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 Woerdblok a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Woerdblok comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Woerdblok 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 Woerdblok?
In Woerdblok the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Woerdblok calculated?
Woerdblok scores 9.7 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 Woerdblok 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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