neighbourhood in Den Haag
De Lanen
5,335 residents · postal code 2493 · Part of Leidschenveen, Den Haag
Everything for children close by, and little room
The number of registered offences in De Lanen is around the national middle, and yet safety gets stuck at a 5.2. That is due to the distribution: violence weighs heaviest within that pillar and occurs more often here than elsewhere, while theft in particular stays below it. An average crime rate can therefore produce a below-average score.
Furthermore this is a neighbourhood of families — almost two thirds of the households have children — but one where a bike or a car is a precondition. The supermarket, the GP, a restaurant and the station are all more than a kilometre away, and for a neighbourhood within The Hague a 6.2 for amenities is therefore low.
It pinches hardest with the quiet: little tree canopy in the surroundings, less greenery than elsewhere and a noise level above it bring that pillar to a 3.2, by far the lowest figure here.
- no. 4,350 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 30 of 110 in Den Haag
How De Lanen scores
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Is De Lanen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Lanen comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 164 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
De Lanen has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 6%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
62% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,898 — 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 De Lanen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Lanen comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Lanen?
In De Lanen the police recorded 164 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 De Lanen calculated?
De Lanen 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 De Lanen 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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