Proximity to facilities; distances by car, sub-municipal data 2021
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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 2021
Changes as of April 2023
Data on the following themes were added:
Health and wellbeing
GP posts
Traffic and transport
Train stations (all types)
Important transfer stations
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 for the time being.
Description topics
- Childcare
- 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
- Education
- Primary education
- Primary education only includes primary schools as known to the Education Executive Agency (DUO). Special primary education and special schools are not included.
A new method is in use for the figures on education with effect from the reporting year 2018: in the current method, files from the Education Executive Agency (DUO) are used for schools in regular primary education. As a result, the figures from 2018 may differ slightly from previous years.
The figures are for January of the relevant school year.- Distance to school
- The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest school, calculated by road.
- Number of schools
- The average number of schools within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
- Within 1 km
- Within 3 km
- Within 5 km
- Secondary education
- Schools where students can follow government-funded full-time secondary education. Practical schools and special schools are not included.
Since secondary schools can be a combination of vmbo (preparatory secondary vocational education), havo (senior general secondary school)/vwo (pre-university education) and vmbo/ havo/vwo schools, the figures for vmbo and havo/vwo do not add up to the total figures for Secondary Education.
The figures are for January of the relevant school year.
From reporting year 2018, a new method is in use for the figures on education: in the current method, files from the Education Executive Agency (DUO) are used to determine the type of school in secondary education. As a result, the figures from 2018 may differ slightly from previous years.
- Secondary education total
- Distance to school
- The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest school, calculated by road.
- Number of schools
- The average number of schools within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
- Within 3 km
- Within 5 km
- Within 10 km
- Vmbo
- Preparatory secondary vocational education.
Preparatory secondary vocational education (vmbo) schools where pupils can follow government-funded full-time secondary education.
The figures are for January of the relevant school year.- Distance to school
- The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest school, calculated by road.
- Number of schools
- The average number of schools within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
- Within 3 km
- Within 5 km
- Within 10 km
- Havo/vwo
- General secondary education (havo).
Pre-university education (vwo).
Havo/vwo schools where pupils can follow government-funded full-time secondary education.
The figures are for January of the relevant school year.- Distance to school
- The average distance of all residents in an area to the nearest school, calculated by road.
- Number of schools
- The average number of schools within a fixed distance by road for all residents of an area.
- Within 3 km
- Within 5 km
- Within 10 km