neighbourhood in Woerden

Binnenstad

2,870 residents · postal code 3441 · Part of Woerden-Midden, Woerden

Top 34% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

A quarter of Woerden's Binnenstad consists of water, and that is immediately the only component pushing the quiet and nature score of 4.8 upward: there is little greenery and traffic noise is above the Dutch middle value.

The safety score of 6.7 is higher than the number of reported offences suggests, and that is down to its composition. Property offences run at more than two and a half times the national middle, but burglaries hardly occur and vandalism stays below the Dutch level. In a shopping area things go missing; that weighs less in this pillar than what happens in people's homes.

The 5.4 for families fits who lives here: more than half of households consist of one person and the share of children is a fraction of the national level. The primary school is six hundred metres away, so the distances are not the issue.

no. 4,372 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 13 of 30 in Woerden

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Is Binnenstad a safe 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

36.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

24.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 183 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

1.0 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

1.7 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.9 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

€ 381,000

Welfare recipients

10.5 per 1,000

High incomes

24%

Low incomes

30%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

46%

Social housing

16%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

39%

Built after 2000

28%

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

7,739 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

34%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

26%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,279

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.6 km

Households with children

19%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

10%

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Who lives here

Binnenstad has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4535%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,739 — 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 Binnenstad a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Binnenstad comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binnenstad is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Binnenstad?

In Binnenstad the police recorded 183 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 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 Binnenstad calculated?

Binnenstad scores 7.5 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 Binnenstad 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.