district in Vlaardingen
Westwijk
Westwijk has 5 neighbourhoods with 12,895 residents in total.
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Vlaardingen's Westwijk posts weak marks almost across the board. Only amenities hold up at 7.0, while wealth and overall both sink deep, to 3.2 and 2.8, and neither safety (3.6) nor quiet (6.2) convinces. Five neighbourhoods hold nearly 13,000 residents between them. A post-war district whose liveability challenge stretches across several pillars at once.
no. 4 of the 7 districts of Vlaardingen
Short answer: Westwijk scores 4.2 as a district of Vlaardingen, no. 4 of the 7 districts of Vlaardingen. Its strongest neighbourhood is Buitengebied Zuidbuurt (7.0), the worst Lage Weide (3.5). The district has 5 neighbourhoods with 12,895 residents in total.
Key figures for Westwijk
- residents
- 12,895
- neighbourhoods
- 5
- km² of land
- 4
How Westwijk 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, 581 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
Westwijk has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,501 — 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 Westwijk, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Westwijk
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Neighbourhoods in Westwijk
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