neighbourhood in Den Haag
Archipelbuurt
6,260 residents · postal code 2585 · Part of Archipelbuurt, Den Haag
Everything close by, safety lags
A 8.2 for wealth & income and at the same time fifteen per cent vacancy: that combination you rarely come across in the Netherlands. The property value in the Archipelbuurt is well above the national one, top incomes are clearly overrepresented there, and it is precisely the vacancy — almost four times the national middle — that is the component keeping this figure down instead of up.
The 4.2 for safety is the other face of the neighbourhood. Violence lies there on the national middle, but burglary occurs a good two times as often as usual and theft too is above it. And what the Archipelbuurt gains in quiet with its trees — the tree canopy there is almost three times as dense as nationally — it loses to bustle: in a densely populated neighbourhood with a noise level above the median the quiet figure sticks at a 5.2.
- no. 4,406 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 32 of 110 in Den Haag
How Archipelbuurt scores
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Is Archipelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Archipelbuurt comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 316 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
The age profile of Archipelbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,198 — 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.
Frequently asked questions
Is Archipelbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Archipelbuurt comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Archipelbuurt?
In Archipelbuurt the police recorded 316 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Archipelbuurt calculated?
Archipelbuurt scores 7.5 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Archipelbuurt lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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