Proximity to facilities; distances by car, sub-municipal data 2020
Explanation of symbols
Table explanation
This table contains information about the average distances for residents of the Netherlands from their home address to the nearest facilities (e.g. school, GP or library). The table also includes information about the number of facilities located within a certain distance from the residential address. These data are calculated as an average over all persons in the area.
The data is available per municipality at district and neighbourhood level, as of 1 January.
Data available for 2020
Changes as of November 2023
New figures were added for the following facilities:
Employment: number of jobs
- A-U all economic activities
- A Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
- B-F Industry and energy
- G-N Commercial services
- O-U Non-commercial services
Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.
When will new numbers be released?
No new figures are expected for this table.
Description topics
- Health and well-being
- General Practitioner's Practice
- Building or space in which one or more general practitioners work (together).
General practitioner:
The general practitioner is responsible for general medical care. He/she provides personal and continuous care to a fixed practice population.- Distance to GP practice
- The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest general practitioner, calculated by road.
As of the reporting year 2020, Statistics Netherlands receives the population of GP practices in a different form than before: the secondary addresses of GP practices are no longer part of the population. Due to this change in the source files, the results from reporting year 2020 are no longer comparable with those of previous years. An analysis for the reporting year 2019 into the effect of omitting the secondary addresses shows that the distance to the nearest general practitioner practice increases by 0.1 km on a national level. At neighbourhood level, the distance can be up to 7 km longer in certain regions.
- Number of GP practices
- The average number of GP practices within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
- Within 1 km
- Within 3 km
- Within 5 km
- Distance to GP post
- GP post
Place where general practitioners from the region provide evening, night and weekend shifts. A number of GP posts work with alternating shifts.
The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest GP post, calculated by road.
The distance from a residential address to one of the GP posts in a cluster of alternating shifts is the average of the distances to all GP posts within that cluster.
- Childcare
- Daycare centres
- Place where children from 0 to 4 years old are cared for during one or more half-days a week throughout the year. The daycare centre can be used for more than 5 hours per day and for a maximum of 10 half-days per week.
- Distance to daycare centres
- The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest daycare centre, calculated by road.
- Number of daycare centres
- The average number of daycare centres within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
- Within 1 km
- Within 3 km
- Within 5 km
- Out-of-school care
- Place where primary school-aged children are cared for before and/or after school, during study and compensation days of the teacher and during the holidays.
- Distance to out-of-school care
- The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest out-of-school care, calculated by road.
- Number of out-of-school care
- The average number of out-of-school care locations within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
- Within 1 km
- Within 3 km
- Within 5 km
- Employment: number of jobs
- A job is an explicit or implicit employment contract between a person and an economic unit that stipulates that work will be performed for which there is a (financial) reward.
The average number of jobs within a fixed distance by road for all inhabitants of an area.- AU all economic activities
- All economic activities
This category is a combination of categories:
A Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
B Extraction of minerals
C Industry
D Production, distribution and trade of electricity, natural gas, steam and cooled air
E Water extraction and distribution; waste and wastewater management and remediation
F Construction
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of cars
H Transport and storage
I Lodging, meal and beverage provision
J Information and communication
K Financial institutions
L Real estate rental and trade
M Consulting, research and other specialist business services
N Rental of movable property and other business services
O Public administration, government services and compulsory social insurance
P Education
Q Health and welfare care
R Culture, sport and recreation
S Other services
T Households as employers; undifferentiated production of goods and services by households for own use
U Extraterritorial organizations and bodies
As of the reporting year2017, a new source file has been used, in which the industry is not known for all jobs. These jobs with industry unknown do count in the figures for AU all economic activities. As a result, the figures for AU all economic activities do not correspond to the sum of the figures for categories A Agriculture, forestry and fisheries, BF Industry and energy, GN Commercial services and OU Non-commercial services.- Within 10 km
- Within 20 km
- Within 50 km
- Leisure and culture
- Recreation
- Distance to attraction
- Amusement park, zoo and indoor playground.
The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest attraction, calculated by road.
- Number of attractions
- The average number of attractions within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
Amusement park, zoo and indoor playground.- Within 10 km
- Within 20 km
- Within 50 km