district in Delft
Wippolder
Wippolder has 11 neighbourhoods with 14,335 residents in total.
Wippolder is TU Delft's district, the campus its largest neighbourhood among 14,335 residents across eleven neighbourhoods. Amenities reach 8.3 here, carried by everything a university town provides. But wealth and income holds at 4.4 and quiet and nature at 4.2, much as a student quarter with heavy turnover would suggest. The overall closes on 5.7.
no. 8 of the 11 districts of Delft
Short answer: Wippolder scores 5.7 as a district of Delft, no. 8 of the 11 districts of Delft. Its strongest neighbourhood is Schoemakerplantage (9.1), the worst TU-Campus (3.0). The district has 11 neighbourhoods with 14,335 residents in total.
Key figures for Wippolder
- residents
- 14,335
- neighbourhoods
- 11
- km² of land
- 2.5
How Wippolder scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 539 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.
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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
Wippolder has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 29%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2529%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6515%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
69% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,314 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Wippolder, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Wippolder
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Neighbourhoods in Wippolder
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