neighbourhood in Den Haag
Binckhorst
3,420 residents · postal code 2516 · Part of Binckhorst, Den Haag
Everything close by, safety lags
More than a quarter of the addresses in Binckhorst stand empty, seven times the national median, and three quarters of the buildings date from after 2000. This is a neighbourhood still becoming one, and the figures measure what stands there now.
The wealth & income pillar therefore cannot be read in a single direction. Relatively many households have a high income and few a low one, but vacancy drags the score to 5.3 and the social assistance rate sits nearly twice above the Dutch middle.
The offence rate is almost four times the national median and consists almost half of property crime — nearly five times the national median. Burglary, by contrast, is below the middle. Where a lot of business activity and few homes sit together, it is usually about what disappears outside rather than what happens indoors.
- no. 10,817 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 87 of 110 in Den Haag
How Binckhorst scores
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Is Binckhorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Binckhorst comes out at 91 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binckhorst is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 680 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
Binckhorst has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 63%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4563%
NL median 22%
- 45–6512%
NL median 28%
- 65+2%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,562 — 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 Binckhorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Binckhorst comes out at 91 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binckhorst is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Binckhorst?
In Binckhorst the police recorded 680 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (91 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 Binckhorst calculated?
Binckhorst scores 3.8 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 Binckhorst 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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