neighbourhood in Den Haag
De Velden
4,110 residents · postal code 2492 · Part of Leidschenveen, Den Haag
Everything for children close by, and little room
More than half of all reported offences in De Velden involve property: twice the rate of the average Dutch neighbourhood. Burglary and vandalism are below the median, violence barely above it. That makes the 5.5 for safety a score mainly about things.
Wealth & income comes out at a 7.5, and not equally strong on every component. Property value, high incomes and vacancy all point the right way, but social assistance runs at nearly twice the Dutch middle.
The families pillar reaches an 8.7 in a neighbourhood where almost half of households have children and the primary school is seven hundred metres away. One thing stands out alongside that: the tree canopy covers only a fraction of what is usual nationally.
- no. 4,575 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 33 of 110 in Den Haag
How De Velden scores
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Is De Velden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Velden comes out at 34 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, 191 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 Velden has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
47% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,664 — 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 Velden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Velden comes out at 34 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 De Velden?
In De Velden the police recorded 191 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Velden calculated?
De Velden scores 7.4 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 Velden 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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