district in Haarlemmermeer
Nieuw-Vennep
Nieuw-Vennep has 11 neighbourhoods with 31,985 residents in total.
Nieuw-Vennep is Haarlemmermeer's second town, eleven neighbourhoods and nearly 32,000 residents built around the new Getsewoud estate. Safety stands out at 7.9 and wealth and income hold firm at 7.2, marks that suit a planned family town on the polder; for families it reaches 8.6. Amenities lag a little at 6.4, and a 4.4 for quiet and nature says it is busier than the polder suggests. The overall settles at a solid 7.2.
no. 4 of the 18 districts of Haarlemmermeer
Short answer: Nieuw-Vennep scores 8.2 as a district of Haarlemmermeer, no. 4 of the 18 districts of Haarlemmermeer. Its strongest neighbourhood is Nieuw-Vennep Wilhelminahoeve (9.6), the worst Nieuw-Vennep Omgeving (3.5). The district has 11 neighbourhoods with 31,985 residents in total.
Key figures for Nieuw-Vennep
- residents
- 31,985
- neighbourhoods
- 11
- km² of land
- 33.5
How Nieuw-Vennep 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, 1,004 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
Nieuw-Vennep has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
2.5 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,762 — 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 Nieuw-Vennep, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Nieuw-Vennep
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Nieuw-Vennep.
Neighbourhoods in Nieuw-Vennep
Sorted by total grade