neighbourhood in Woerden
Waterrijk
3,100 residents · postal code 3446 · Part of Woerden-Oost, Woerden
Everything for children close by, and little room
With a 10.0, Waterrijk is among the hundred highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and that is not the average of five strong pillars. Safety, wealth & income and families all three run close to ten; quiet & nature lags far behind at a 3.9.
That low quiet score is the most interesting number here. There is plenty of water, but little greenery and strikingly little tree canopy close by, and population density is high for an area built entirely after 2000. The name promises more calm than the measurements show.
Wealth is strong across the board: property values well above the national middle, many high incomes, few low ones, barely any social assistance and almost no vacancy. And with half of households having children and a primary school around the corner, the 9.9 for families is one of the few you can read without reservation.
- no. 88 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 30 in Woerden
How Waterrijk scores
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Is Waterrijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterrijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waterrijk 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, 46 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
Waterrijk has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
51% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,087 — 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 Waterrijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterrijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waterrijk 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 Waterrijk?
In Waterrijk the police recorded 46 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Waterrijk calculated?
Waterrijk scores 10.0 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 Waterrijk 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 Woerden.
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